On Friday, Oct. 9, the National Assembly’s finance committee rejected the first part of the draft finance bill for 2027, the revenue section, which brings together taxes and levies. The vote was almost unanimous: 31 against, 3 in favor and 2 abstentions, according to Le Figaro. Le Monde speaks of a broad rejection. The opposition parties lambast the government’s draft, while most of the governing camp deplores the amendments they added during three days of debate (Le Figaro). The contribution asked of retirees and local authorities concentrated the tensions (Le Monde). The rejection does not stop the timetable: in plenary session, MPs will start again from the government’s original text, as soon as Tuesday, Oct. 13 (Le Monde, Le Figaro). For franceinfo, these three days were only a rehearsal and the result points to long haggling for Sébastien Lecornu’s government. Le Figaro ranks inheritance tax among the hottest topics, and Le Monde notes the anger of training providers over the retroactivity of the reform of the personal training account.
The budget sets what the state collects and spends, and therefore the level of taxes, pensions, benefits and resources for local authorities. A rejection in committee is mainly a political signal, but it shows that no majority is emerging at this stage for the revenue section. If it is rejected again in the Hemicycle, the Assembly does not vote on the spending section and the text goes to the Senate, which complicates the government’s timetable.
Nothing changes yet for your tax bill or your pension: the text is far from being voted. If you are a retiree, an employee who uses your CPF or a local elected official, follow next week’s debates, because these are the measures being negotiated.
The rejection reflects a fundamental disagreement over the efforts being asked and over who should make them. It forces the government to negotiate openly rather than lean on an already amended text.
A committee can reject a text and the Hemicycle rewrite it: Friday’s vote is only a stage and does not prejudge the outcome. The groups voting against do not yet have a common alternative budget.
Watch three things on Tuesday: the order in which the amendments on retirees, local authorities and inheritance are called, the groups that abstain rather than vote against, and the concessions Matignon lets show. A 31-to-3 result in committee says nothing about the balance of power in plenary session. The vote figures come from a single outlet (Le Figaro); Le Monde only speaks of a “broad” rejection.
Le Figaro (31 against, 3 in favor, 2 abstentions; inheritance) · Le Monde (retirees, local authorities, CPF, Tuesday in the Hemicycle) · franceinfo (negotiations ahead), Oct. 9
2027 budget: finance committee rejects the revenue section by 31 votes to 3. Debate resumes Tuesday in the Hemicycle
The finance committee rejected the revenue section by 31 votes to 3. The text returns to the Hemicycle on Tuesday in its original version, and the Lecornu government will have to look for a majority.
On Friday, Oct. 9, the National Assembly’s finance committee rejected the first part of the draft 2027 budget, the revenue section, which brings together taxes and levies. The vote was almost unanimous: 31 against, 3 in favor and 2 abstentions, according to Le Figaro, while Le Monde speaks of a broad rejection. The opposition parties lambast the government’s draft, while most of the governing camp deplores the amendments they added during three days of debate. The contribution asked of retirees and local authorities concentrated the tensions (Le Monde). The rejection does not stop the timetable: in plenary session, MPs will start again from the government’s original text, as soon as Tuesday, Oct. 13 in the Hemicycle (Le Monde, Le Figaro). For franceinfo, these three days were only a rehearsal, and the result points to long haggling for Sébastien Lecornu’s government.
This budget is meant to reduce the public deficit, so every saving and every revenue measure is negotiated with groups whose interests clash. Neither of the two parts of the text has been adopted at this stage: the only vote secured is a refusal. The points of friction go beyond the committee alone. Le Figaro ranks inheritance tax among the hottest topics of the budget debate, and Le Monde notes the anger of training providers over the retroactivity of the reform of the personal training account, the CPF. The Constitution frames this timetable: the Assembly has forty days to decide, and Parliament as a whole seventy days. What follows obeys a simple rule: if the first part of the text is rejected in the Hemicycle, the Assembly does not vote on the second, devoted to spending, and the text goes to the Senate. The government must therefore look for a majority, or find a way to do without one, in a country already going through a high-school student movement, a surge in fuel prices and the start of a presidential campaign. Friday’s vote says nothing about the balance of power in plenary session, because the text starts again from a different page: the amendments adopted in committee fall, and they will have to be tabled again or replaced. Zone Militaire adds an example of these trade-offs: the chief of the defense staff, General Mandon, calls the abolition of the child-related pension supplement “disastrous” for the armed forces. Above all he recalls that the 2027 budget will be decided on very concrete measures: pensions, resources for town halls and départements, inheritances, training. The social-democratic left, which this weekend picks its candidate for the presidential election, is also looking for resources in inheritances and tax loopholes (Le Figaro), so that Tuesday’s debate will also serve as a rehearsal for the 2027 campaign.