It wasn’t a surprise. The National Assembly clearly rejected the 2025 finance bill on Tuesday at first reading. Only the left voted for a text that it largely contributed to rewriting and which was “distorted”, according to the majority.
The “revenue” part of the text was approved by 192 deputies from the New Popular Front, against 362 members of the four groups of the government coalition and the National Rally and its Ciottist allies. “This budget is the budget of the New Popular Front, it is the budget that the French people chose on July 7,” said LFI deputy Aurélien Le Coq.
The text will now continue its legislative journey in the Senate with the initial version imagined by the government.