France: François Bayrou will request a vote of trust

Faced with the risks of censorship of his government and blockages of the France In September, the Prime Minister François Bayrou gave an appointment on Monday on September 8 in the National Assembly for a so-called “confidence” vote, which could precipitate his fall.

Mr. Bayrou will engage on this date the “responsibility” of his government before the assembly gathered in an extraordinary session, around the “central question” of France’s “over -indebtedness”.

This vote “will devote the dimension of the effort” of nearly 44 billion euros in reduction in the public deficit of France, and only then will take place “the discussion” on “each of the measures of this emergency plan”, he detailed. Without “agreement” in the Assembly, Mr. Bayrou will consider that “action” is “impossible”.

France’s “over -indebtedness”, a priority

Revealing the perilous dimension of this choice, rebellious France (LFI, radical left) and the French Communist Party (PCF) immediately announced that they will then vote to “bring down the government”. The environmentalists said the same thing, stressing that this vote of trust was “in fact a resignation”.

The national rally (RN, extreme right) also assured that he would not grant confidence, its president Jordan Bardella predicting “the end of the government”, whose fate now depends on the official position of the Socialist Party (PS).

His boss, Olivier Faure, told the daily Le Monde on Monday he considered “unimaginable that the socialists vote for confidence in the Prime Minister” who “made the choice to leave”. His announcement “is a self -sodolution. He thinks he is doing it with someone’s panache who plans another stage of his political life, “he added.

Bayrou repeated, at his return press conference, that his priority was to fight against France’s “over -indebtedness”, in a context of multiple calls to block the country from September 10.

Threats of censorship and blockages

“Is there or not national urgency to rebalance our public accounts and to escape, because it is still possible, to the curse of over-indebtedness (…)? And this by choosing a trajectory of return to control of debt in four years by 2029, spending less and producing more, “insisted the Prime Minister in a serious and solemn tone. But all of his desire to crop the debate, he did not address the substance of the measures that will compose his budget.

The main announcements of the head of government on this draft budget rose to July 15. Or 43.8 billion euros in savings via many measures: tax white year, freeze of pensions and social benefits, removal of two holidays to which 84% of of French According to a survey.

Since then, Mr. Bayrou faces a threat of censorship brandished by the left and the extreme right. He must also face calls to block the country on September 10, born on social networks and supported by LFI, who said he hoped for “general strike”. Socialists, environmentalists and communists also support this call.

François Bayrou “does not want to undergo the start of the school year”

Circumstations in front of this movement, employee unions, opposed to the Bayrou budget and the government project to reform unemployment insurance again, reflect on their means of action, before an inter-union scheduled for September 1.

After the experience of Michel Barnier, Prime Minister overturned after three months at the end of 2024, François Bayrou “did not want to undergo the start of the school year,” said one of his relatives before the press conference.

“He’s not waiting to be censored like that. Without trying to find ways, paths, to reaffirm a number of things, ”he added.

In the current National Assembly, resulting from the choice of Mr. Macron in June 2024 to dissolve the previous one, the presidential camp and the right, which form the “common base” of the government, are not the majority.

AFP

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