{"id":524261,"date":"2025-10-24T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524261\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:24:16","slug":"frances-socialists-threaten-to-oust-government-by-monday-amid-fraught-budget-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524261\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Socialists threaten to oust government by Monday amid fraught budget talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS (Reuters) -France&#8217;s Socialists have threatened to topple the government by Monday if their budget conditions are not met, saying on Friday they would file a no-confidence bill next week if the mega-rich are not forced to pay more tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We have made an effort not to censure the prime minister, but so far we have not seen any sign of a willingness to compromise,&#8221; Socialist party leader Olivier Faure told BFM on Friday. &#8220;If there is no change by Monday, it&#8217;s all over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Given the arithmetic of France&#8217;s starkly divided parliament, the Socialists have the power to topple Prime Minster Sebastien Lecornu&#8217;s weak minority government if they partner with the far left and the far right, which have already said they want to oust him.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lecornu had managed to win Socialist support by pledging to scrap a landmark pension reform, but the left clearly believes in can extract greater concessions as talks to pass the 2026 budget began on Friday on the floor of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi and Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (Reuters) -France&#8217;s Socialists have threatened to topple the government by Monday if their budget conditions are not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1194,2000,299,36,170203,147899,12338,33790,170202],"class_list":{"0":"post-524261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-minority-government","13":"tag-olivier-faure","14":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","15":"tag-socialist-party","16":"tag-socialists"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}