{"id":8967,"date":"2025-12-14T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/france-faces-pivotal-budget-vote-amid-deep-political-divisions\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:04","slug":"france-faces-pivotal-budget-vote-amid-deep-political-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/france-faces-pivotal-budget-vote-amid-deep-political-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"France faces pivotal budget vote amid deep political divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/7e6f4d4c-d51f-11f0-be30-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/EN-20251209-170143-170503-CS.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>France\u2019s divided parliament faces a pivotal vote on Tuesday that could spark a new political crisis and create a \u20ac30 billion shortfall in funding for healthcare, pensions and welfare. Lawmakers are deciding whether to approve next year\u2019s social security budget &#8211; an especially critical test for Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who lacks a majority in the National Assembly. He is banking on concessions, including suspending Emmanuel Macron\u2019s landmark pension reform until the next presidential election, to win support from other blocs, but the vote is shaping up to be extremely&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20251209-france-faces-pivotal-budget-vote-amid-deep-political-divisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s divided parliament faces a pivotal vote on Tuesday that could spark a new political crisis and create a \u20ac30 billion shortfall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}