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Ever since President Emmanuel Macron’s fateful dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale on June 9, 2024, which left the country politically fragmented, what was once the exception has begun to become the norm. Just like last year, due to the lack of an agreement on the 2026 state budget bill, parliament adopted a “special law,” a temporary measure that provides for funding the day-to-day operations of the state, public administrations and local authorities, on Tuesday, December 23. That vote concluded two and a half months of fruitless budget debates, with lawmakers having been…
