France's Parliament must be protected from the fever of the presidential election
- Posted on January 20, 2026
- By Le Monde
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France's Parliament must be protected from the fever of the presidential election

EDITORIAL. Caught up in grandstanding and obsessed with their own image, France's MPs failed to reach a compromise on the budget bill, forcing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to invoke Article 49.3 of the Constitution on Monday. No one emerged from the episode a winner.