The Chamber carries on as usual while the budget ministry already plans for provisional twelfths in 2027

Despite the resignation the King is keeping under consideration, work in the Chamber continues normally this week. Chamber President Peter De Roover said, according to Belga in a report on La Libre's website, that the Chamber decides on its own agenda. If the crisis drags on, few new government bills will come in, but texts already under way can proceed. A bill on home searches is on the agenda of Thursday's plenary session.

Deputy Prime Minister and Budget Minister Vincent Van Peteghem (CD&V) said on Monday afternoon that his administration is preparing a second emergency budget with provisional twelfths, this time for 2027, VRT NWS reports. Under that system the federal government may spend only one twelfth of the previous year's expenditure each month. Reform measures could therefore take effect at least three months later, allowing deficits to grow further, the public broadcaster writes. Financial markets stayed calm: the Belgian ten-year yield remained at 4.38 percent, according to De Tijd, as cited by VRT NWS.

Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) told RTBF that his party wants to cut ministers' salaries for as long as there is no deal, an idea the party had also floated during the Brussels government negotiations. According to Prévot, the talks are stuck on extra revenue from large fortunes and on the health care budget. He also took a swipe at MR leader Georges-Louis Bouchez, chairman of the football club Francs Borains, claiming that his club is blocking the removal of 70 million euros in tax advantages for footballers, La Libre reports. He put the chances of new elections at fifty-fifty. PS leader Paul Magnette told RTL-TVi that his party will not bail out a dying government, but is not calling for elections now, La Libre writes on the basis of Belga.