The Prime Minister is back, between threats of censorship and blocking of the country

Will the French Prime Minister be censored on his budget project at 44 billion euros in savings? Consequently, François Bayrou approaches a high -risk political school year by holding a highly anticipated press conference on Monday. Meanwhile, in a context of calls to block the country on September 10.

The last explanation of text of the head of government on the subject dates back to July 15.

Since that date, and the announcement of 43.8 billion euros in savings via many measures – tax white year. Therefore, freezing of pensions and social benefits, suppression of two holidays to which 84% of French people are opposed according to a survey -, the Prime Minister 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. Moreover, born on social networks prime minister back, between threats and supported by rebellious France (LFI, radical left) by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said he hoped “the general strike”. Furthermore, Socialists, environmentalists and communists also support this call.

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

“Everyone has the right to protest. but I do not believe that, before such a crisis, the response of the French can be to block the country,” said Bayrou on Sunday.

“Back to school”

After the experience of Michel Barnier. Prime Minister overturned after three months, François Bayrou “does not want to undergo the start of the school year”. “He’s not waiting to be censored like that. Without trying to find ways, paths, to reaffirm a number of things, “said a relative of the prime minister back, between threats Prime Minister.

For former President François Hollande. now deputy (socialist), if censorship is “today likely”, the “chaos” that it could generate is not “good for the country,” he said.

If the 44 billion savings are “intangible”, “the measures can all be discussed,” said Bayrou recently to AFP. “I said I was ready to hear other proposals; On public holidays, for example, maybe other dates are possible. But the only thing for me that is not possible is that we give up awareness. the will to get out of the infernal trap in which we are, that of over -indebtedness ”.

The Prime Minister. received by President Emmanuel Macron last Thursday in his summer residence in Brégançon (Southeast), is notably expected on the contours of the “wealthy contribution”, mentioned on July 15. The ISF (wealth tax) was abolished in France in 2017.

“Awareness”

Faced with this lifting of prime minister back, between threats shields. François Bayrou has pleaded his cause for several weeks via a series of videos on Youtube, nevertheless aware that, “at the start of the school year, there will necessarily be a confrontation between reality and ideologies”, as he recently declared to AFP.

“I said that I was ready to hear other proposals (…) But the only thing for me that is not possible is that we give up awareness. the desire to get out of the infernal trap in which we are, that of over -indebtedness”.

One of the objectives of the head of the French government is indeed to reduce the GDP (gross domestic product) to the public deficit of France. which reached 5.8% in 2024. The French public debt represents almost 114% of GDP, the third largest in the euro zone behind Greece and Italy.

According to the projections of the European Commission published in May. France prime minister back, between threats should record the worst public deficit in the euro zone in 2025 and 2026.

With AFP