This appointment, mentioned a few days earlier by Le Canard Enchaînéis announced then that the Prime Minister faces a risk of censorship due to his 2026 budget plan.
The government wanted to believe in a “compromise” With the Socialist Party, without which no censorship can be voted against Prime Minister François Bayrou. Maybe he just found him. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, former Minister of National Education under François Hollande and current president of the Socialist group, environmentalist and democrat at the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, was appointed “On the proposal of the Prime Minister” “Master advisor to the Court of Auditors”according to the report of the Council of Ministers this Thursday, July 16, 2025.
A few days earlier, on July 8, our colleagues from Chained duckwith sharp pen, revealed that “To avoid censorship, Bayrou [était] ready for anything. Even to haggling the appointment to the court of accounts of the socialist Najat Vallaud-Belkacem against the neutrality of the PS group during the vote of its budget at the start of the school year ”.
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“Abuse”
The former government spokesperson then said he was “Always reluctant to honor an answer to absurdities”but wanted to react on X: “A student in the first year of journalism would be able to always cross the news, and not be content to copy the cowards whispered by a few clever.”
And to continue: “Not very complicated then to discover that the path that I voluntarily used for the Court is that of the competition … Not much to do with a” political “” appointment “. She had also advanced that it was unlikely that she will put pressure on «Boris» Vallaud, her husband and president of the socialist group in the National Assembly. “What joke”had she cracked.
“Service exchange”
First reactions to the announcement of his appointment were published on social networks. The RN deputy of the Somme Matthias Renault wondered: “Is it an offering to the Socialist Party to coax him as a motion of censorship approaches. This appointment “on the proposal of the Prime Minister” is a shame ”. Some Internet users, claiming to be right, also denounced a “Exchange of service that saves the Republic”and pointed their “shame” and their «indignation».
François Bayrou announced on Wednesday a budgetary plan for the year 2026, evoking several shocking measures, including the abolition of two holidays and the freezing of social benefits and pensions in order to achieve 43.8 billion euros “Savings”. Praised by Emmanuel Macron, who pointed out a plan that has “The virtue of courage, audacity and lucidity”however, he suffered criticism of almost the whole opposition.
As of Tuesday, Marine Le Pen agitated censorship if the government “Do not review his copy” from top to bottom. At LFI, the chairman of the finance committee, Éric Coquerel, wants to censor “As soon as this Trumpist budget” and wait “Obviously the socialists at the rendezvous”. “No one wants to vote for such a budget”said the rapporteur of the Courson budget (Liot), who wonders if “The Prime Minister, doing this, does not organize his release”.
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However, no censorship can be passed without the PS. “We are going to chat with all the parties. Obviously, there are probably more possibilities to reach an agreement with the Socialist Party ”recognized the Minister of the Economy Éric Lombard. The PS did not close the door to a discussion, although Boris Vallaud denounced a “Museum of liberal horrors”.
