Budget 2027: Jean-Philippe Tanguy announces that the National Rally “will not vote on the motion to reject the socialists”

The examination of the 2027 budget will start in the evening with the part dedicated to state revenue. Socialist deputies have already announced that they will table a motion to reject.

End of suspense. The vote of the deputies of the National Rally, Tuesday October 13, is the center of all attention on the first day of the examination of the 2027 budget in the hemicycle. Already criticized on all sides, the text will be subject to a rejection motion initiated by elected socialists. “We will not vote on the Socialists’ motion to reject,” Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN leader on the budget, announced to the press. “But I don’t really see where the surprise lies since we have not voted on any motion to reject the PLF (finance bill) or PLFSS (Social Security financing bill),” added the far-right elected official.

Review of the budget planned for the end of the day. The examination of this text, the last of the Macron presidency, will begin in the evening with the revenue section, which mainly determines tax revenues. The ambition is to return to a deficit of 5% of GDP in 2027.

A motion to reject filed by the socialists. The oppositions very poorly received the government copy, including the PS which had agreed to let the budget pass at the end of 2025. "In what the Prime Minister put on the table, in the way in which the first discussions took place, in particular with the central bloc, this does not let us see an outstretched hand", explained the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.

The threat of a 49.3. Deprived of a majority, Sébastien Lecornu could resort, as in 2025, to article 49.3 of the Constitution, in exchange for non-censorship. “We managed to forge compromises with the socialists in 2025 and 2026. I hear the PS's demands for more social justice. We will have to talk about it,” assured David Amiel, Minister of Public Accounts.

Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN deputy, leader on the budget: "I announce to you and I confirm to you that we will not vote on the socialists' motion to reject (...), but I don't really see where the surprise lies since we have not voted on any motion to reject the PLF (finance bill) or PLFSS (social security financing bill). We are still not going to give, unlike the socialists, this gift to the government of having an opposition grotesque, ridiculous and caricature which consists of refusing to allow the government to seize the main text which establishes parliamentary and representative democracy."

This is the first time that Bercy has presented figures on this hot issue. A few hours before the 2027 budget arrived in the chamber, the government published an annex to the finance bill. We learn that the State has allocated 166 billion euros to public aid intended for businesses in 2024, in the broadest sense of what the term public aid covers.