French PM Lecornu asks Parliament not to use the budget to vote down his government
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
French PM Sebastien Lecornu urges Parliament not to use the budget vote as a no-confidence tool, emphasizing his budget priorities to maintain stability.
PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu asked lawmakers on Tuesday not to use the vote on the budget as a pretext to vote his government out.
"There is no longer any pretext for a no-confidence motion," he said.
Lecornu was addressing parliament to spell out his budget priorities, in the hope of staving off losing a no-confidence vote that would plunge France further into the political mire.
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, editing by Inti Landauro)
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