PM Sébastien Lecornu pushes budget through using constitutional powers that avoided vote in parliament PM Sébastien Lecornu pushes budget through using constitutional powers that avoided vote in parliament France has finally passed a budget for this year after the minority government survived a series of no-confidence votes in a long-running political saga that has unsettled debt markets and alarmed the country’s European partners. The prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu , told parliament on