Like an air of deja vu. This Thursday, January 30, seven deputies and seven senators will meet in a joint joint committee (CMP) to try to bring out a compromise on the 2025 budget. This initiative governs by article 45 of the Constitution will take place in the National Assembly and will have to be made up of eight parliamentarians from the “common base” bringing together the right and the macronists, and six parliamentarians of the oppositions. Note that the seats are allocated in proportion to the importance of the groups of each assembly.
As a reminder, the CMP can be “gathered on the initiative of the Prime Minister, or since 2008 to that of the presidents of the two assemblies jointly for the proposals of laws, in the event of persistent disagreement between the assemblies on a bill or a proposal of a bill “, defines the official website of Senate. The mission of the CMP is therefore to lock oneself in an indefinite period and to give birth to a final version of the law which could put everyone in agreement in Parliament. “The discussion takes place article by article, in principle in their digital order. But this order is modified without any particular formality if it appears that this modification is likely to facilitate an” “agreement, specifies the official website.
In this joint joint commission, there are four representatives of the right. Philippe Juvin (LR), deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, as well as three senators: Jean-François Husson (LR), for the Meurthe-et-Moselle, Christine Lavarde (LR), elected Hauts-de-Seine and Stéphane Sautarel (LR), for Cantal. Same number of emissaries for the pink block of the new Popular Front: the only representative of rebellious France, Eric Coquerel who is the president of the finance committee in the Assembly. Alongside him, three members of the Socialist Party: Philippe Brun, deputy for Eure, accompanied by senators from Haute-Garonne and Sarthe, respectively Claude Raynal and Thierry Cozic.
“The common base” majority
The Macronist camp sends David Amiel (EPR), MP for Paris considered to the left wing of Renaissance, Jean-Paul Mattei (MoDem), deputy of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Vincent Capo-Canellas Senators for the Centrist Union, and Didier Rambaud at Renaissance. The national rally will be able to count on two deputies: Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Matthias Renault.
In addition, the possible conclusions of the joint joint committee on the state budget will be examined Monday, February 3, in the National Assembly, according to a parliamentary source, with the key to the use for the first time by François Bayrou of article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, focusing on the fact that the RN or the socialists do not censor it. The Senate could decide him definitively on the state budget on February 7. Its conclusions must then be adopted by the two chambers. As a reminder, the National Assembly has the last word in the event of a divergence with the Senate.
While the government coalition is in a position of strength to find a compromise that suits it in CMP, it is not because there is a consensus that the text will be validated by the deputies or that a censure motion will not be not adopted. “Since 1959, despite political alternations, two joint joint commissions have resulted in an agreement,” said the Senate site. And you don’t have to look far to find examples of failure. In December 2024, an agreement was laid by the fourteen representatives on the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) presented by the Barnier government. We know the rest.