PARIS (Reuters) – France’s National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, approved a special law on Monday intended to maintain essential state functions and prevent any disruption to public services, three days after President Emmanuel Macron named François Bayrou as its fourth Prime Minister from 2024.

The French Constitution authorizes the adoption of a special law by Parliament that renews the tax and spending increase provisions of the current budget to ensure that there is no government shutdown at the end of the year. like the United States in the absence of an appropriate budget bill.

The Senate, the upper house of Parliament, will examine the law on Wednesday. It must be promulgated before December 31 to guarantee the continuity of public services.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; editing by Gabriel Stargardter)

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