French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu walked back on the central founding promise of his government on Monday evening by announcing that he would invoke his anti-democratic Article 49.3 emergency powers to pass a leftist-inspired budget without a vote from the National Assembly.
Despite the constitutional loophole ultimately dooming multiple of his recent predecessors and having promised to seek compromise in a bid to balance the nation’s books, Prime Minister Lecornu said that with “regret” he would use the article to pass the federal budget.
The LFI party immediately said it would file a motion of no confidence in the prime minister…
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