France’s social security budget cleared a key hurdle in France’s National Assembly on Tuesday as lawmakers narrowly approved a draft bill aimed at staving off a huge gap in funding for welfare, pensions and healthcare, handing a victory to embattled Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
Lawmakers in the lower house of the French parliament approved the social security budget on Tuesday, averting a political crisis for now as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu struggles to get the overall state budget passed by year end.
The National Assembly adopted the measure, which includes the suspension of an unpopular pension reform, by 247 votes to 234, and it will now head back to the Senate before returning to the lower chamber.
Lecornu hailed the outcome of Tuesday’s vote, thanking what he called a “responsible majority”.
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