>“**Fortunately, ridicule doesn’t kill, otherwise we’d have 577 deaths to mourn**,” lamented the MP from Eure-et-Loir after the rejection of the funding part of the Budget.
>**Alone in the middle of the chamber.** When, at around 1:45 a.m. in the night from Friday to Saturday, November 22, the National Assembly was due to vote on the first part of the 2026 budget, a single little blue dot appeared on the screen. You had to look carefully at the top left to find the lone MP who cast his vote in favor of the text, while 84 abstained and 404 voted against.
>**Harold Huwart** hadn’t made a mistake. He had deliberately set himself apart from his colleagues after 125 hours of debates that ultimately proved useless. The bill is now going straight to the Senate without any of the adopted amendments and without the deputies having discussed the spending portion of the budget.
>**“I want a France to have abudget. I don’t understand how you manage to find a majority on each article and unanimity against the overall text. It’s incredible, unprecedented.** Fortunately ridicule doesn’t kill, or we’d have 577 dead,” declared the MP, who has sat with the LIOT group (independents) since his election. That was in the summer of 2024, after Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution. Supported in the second round by both the New Popular Front and the Macronist coalition, he had defeated the RN candidate Christophe Bay.
# For a Glucksmann or Cazeneuve candidacy in 2027
>A figure of the left for about ten years, he is a member of the Radical Party—the same one his father François belonged to, who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in Lionel Jospin’s government. A ministerial adviser during François Hollande’s presidency, he also became vice-president of the Centre–Val de Loire region. He succeeded his father as mayor of Nogent-le-Rotrou in 2020 before stepping down due to France’s ban on holding multiple elected offices.
>Looking ahead to the 2027 presidential election, he hopes to see the emergence of a social-democratic candidacy. His presence on November 16 at the rally organized by Bernard Cazeneuve and Raphaël Glucksmann is evidence of that. It marks “the beginning of a coalition we’ve been seeking for some time and which seems essential to me” in the face of a likely “union of the right,” he said with satisfaction.
Someone on rFrance had a good metaphor for the budget vote, when you call everyone to make a salad and ask people to bring their favorite ingredients, don’t be surprised if the final product pleases no one (eg something with both foie gras and anchovies)
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> A figure of the left for about ten years, he is a member of the **Radical Party**
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>“**Fortunately, ridicule doesn’t kill, otherwise we’d have 577 deaths to mourn**,” lamented the MP from Eure-et-Loir after the rejection of the funding part of the Budget.
>**Alone in the middle of the chamber.** When, at around 1:45 a.m. in the night from Friday to Saturday, November 22, the National Assembly was due to vote on the first part of the 2026 budget, a single little blue dot appeared on the screen. You had to look carefully at the top left to find the lone MP who cast his vote in favor of the text, while 84 abstained and 404 voted against.
>**Harold Huwart** hadn’t made a mistake. He had deliberately set himself apart from his colleagues after 125 hours of debates that ultimately proved useless. The bill is now going straight to the Senate without any of the adopted amendments and without the deputies having discussed the spending portion of the budget.
>**“I want a France to have abudget. I don’t understand how you manage to find a majority on each article and unanimity against the overall text. It’s incredible, unprecedented.** Fortunately ridicule doesn’t kill, or we’d have 577 dead,” declared the MP, who has sat with the LIOT group (independents) since his election. That was in the summer of 2024, after Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution. Supported in the second round by both the New Popular Front and the Macronist coalition, he had defeated the RN candidate Christophe Bay.
# For a Glucksmann or Cazeneuve candidacy in 2027
>A figure of the left for about ten years, he is a member of the Radical Party—the same one his father François belonged to, who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in Lionel Jospin’s government. A ministerial adviser during François Hollande’s presidency, he also became vice-president of the Centre–Val de Loire region. He succeeded his father as mayor of Nogent-le-Rotrou in 2020 before stepping down due to France’s ban on holding multiple elected offices.
>Looking ahead to the 2027 presidential election, he hopes to see the emergence of a social-democratic candidacy. His presence on November 16 at the rally organized by Bernard Cazeneuve and Raphaël Glucksmann is evidence of that. It marks “the beginning of a coalition we’ve been seeking for some time and which seems essential to me” in the face of a likely “union of the right,” he said with satisfaction.
Someone on rFrance had a good metaphor for the budget vote, when you call everyone to make a salad and ask people to bring their favorite ingredients, don’t be surprised if the final product pleases no one (eg something with both foie gras and anchovies)
> A figure of the left for about ten years, he is a member of the **Radical Party**
just let it go bruh
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