Prime Minister François Bayrou is preparing to experience an eventful return, between risk of censorship and social anger. The text on the 2026 budget continues to tense and divide.
Back to school could be very agitated for the Prime Minister, François Bayrou. The question of the voting of the 2026 budget puts it in front of a risk of censorship. This text, which would make it possible to make 43.8 billion savings, must be examined while the presidential base has no majority.
“I know that I am a minority,” he said in an interview with our colleagues from the Parisian, published this Saturday, August 23.
Faced with him, the oppositions have come back and winds standing against this text, which provides in particular for the suppression of two holidays.
A day of mobilization on September 10
Beyond the legislative course of the text on the budget, it will also be discussed in the street. Indeed, social anger will invite itself to the agenda of this school year. Left unions and political parties call for strike and demonstration on September 10. Several sectors could be affected, such as the rail, among others.
An incomprehensible choice for François Bayrou. “It’s ‘the country is in front of great risks, well, we will block it!’ How to defend this? “He adds, a few days before a press conference scheduled for Monday.
According to a recent survey, 70 % of French people say they are favorable “to the fact that there are demonstrations to protest against the government’s budget” and 58 % are favorable to the country’s blocking specifically on September 10.
“Everyone has to participate”
“Only French membership can change things in this climate of balance of power,” said the Prime Minister, who specifies that: “Political forces are obsessed with the next election.”
He therefore seeks to convince the French of the need to have this budget adopted, by several means as with his YouTube videos published this summer or this press conference on Monday.
“What we hear most often: ‘efforts yes, but not for me, immigrants, the rich, it is they that must be paid’. In reality, everyone will have to participate, with guarantees of justice”, explains François Bayrou in the Parisian.
What he wants? “A comeback at the height of the story, not a decomposition return with mobilization, negotiation, reverse.”
