La fin accélérée du macronisme au Parlement

France’s National Assembly unanimously rejected the first section of the state budget on Wednesday evening, with no deputy voting in favor of the text produced by the debates. The unprecedented outcome leaves the government of Sébastien Lecornu without a single parliamentary approval for the initial budget package, aggravating center and right-wing lawmakers. The rejection signals an accelerated erosion of Macron’s parliamentary base and raises the risk that budget negotiations will drag on without a stable majority. Attention now turns to the alternative scenarios being floated for the next stage of the budget process and whether Lecornu can rebuild support among centrist and right-leaning deputies.