Élysée, Matignon, Parliament, parties: all the news from French politics.
After the social conference at Matignon, the government announced a 1.6% rise in the minimum wage from 1 December and a set of measures on bonuses. Not enough for the unions: the CGT and public-sector unions are calling for protests on Tuesday 17 November.
A bombshell in the race for the Élysée: the five-time Olympic judo champion announces his candidacy, says he is neither left nor right, and sketches out his first proposals on pensions, wages and the 35-hour week.
The leader of the LR MPs gives the right and centre candidates fifteen days to meet and agree on a method. The same weekend, 66 parliamentarians, most of them from Renaissance, called for a primary against the extremes.
According to the Elabe barometer for Les Échos, the head of state has lost four points in a month and eleven since August. 82% of French people do not trust him.
In front of more than 20,000 people according to the organisers, the La France insoumise candidate presented L'Avenir en commun: a price freeze, a higher minimum wage and a Sixth Republic. Marine Le Pen denounced a plan to dismantle France.
Every group voted against the revenue section on Wednesday, taking down the entire draft state budget. The bill goes to the Senate in its original version, and the government is putting off any compromise until December.
The former Prime Minister condemns what he calls the moral and political collapse of the Horizons candidate, who is standing by his remarks on the looting of 17 October and denouncing what he calls thought policing.
MPs could finish examining the revenue section of the budget this week, after the formal vote scheduled for Tuesday was postponed. A rejection would send the government's original draft to the Senate, without the amendments passed since 13 October.
Questioned during government question time on Tuesday, the Prime Minister confirmed that the ceiling on the Livret A savings account, currently €22,950, will rise to between €25,000 and €30,000 in February, with the interest rate also going up. The exact figure will be set by the Finance Ministry.
Three weeks before the congress of the Association des maires de France, David Lisnard's dual candidacy, for the AMF presidency and for the presidential election, is going down increasingly badly. On Tuesday, centrist senator Bernard Delcros said the situation was not sustainable in the long run.
Dominique de Villepin said on France Inter on Tuesday that he has no doubt about running for the Élysée, but that it is not yet the time to make it official. The former prime minister rules out any alliance with the centrist bloc or with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Questioned by MPs on Monday evening about injuries to secondary school pupils, Laurent Nuñez warned that he would not give up any intermediate means of force. On Tuesday, the interior minister is the first to be heard by the parliamentary inquiry into the day of chaos on 17 October.
The formal vote on the revenue section of the 2027 budget, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in the Assemblée nationale, will not take place. Having failed to get through all the amendments, MPs are postponing the vote for the second time, with no new date set.
Five and a half months before the first round, the centrist bloc is turning Europe into a campaign issue. On Monday, Gérald Darmanin and Clément Beaune both warned against a victory for the RN or LFI in 2027.
On Sunday evening on TF1, Édouard Philippe rejected the "democrats' primary" proposed by Gabriel Attal. On Monday morning, on the same channel, the Renaissance candidate hit back, saying the contest would end up taking place.
MPs resume their scrutiny of the 2027 finance bill on Monday. With no majority and no compromise in sight, the Lecornu government faces the likely rejection of the revenue section, followed by the spectre of Article 49.3 or ordinances.