The French opposition parties have threatened the minority government of Prime Minister Francois Bayro by provoking a vote on distrust if they do not rate their cuts in the next year’s budget. Plans introduced by Bayra on Tuesday include, among other things, the abolition of two public holidays. TASR reports this according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
According to the Prime Minister, the aim of the French government is to reduce the deficit of last year’s 5.8 percent to less than 4.6 percent next year and below three percent by 2029. The proposed cuts would freeze most public spending in an effort to reduce France’s public debt, which represents EUR 3.3 trillion. The government expects to save EUR 43.8 billion.
Opposition threats
By the overthrow of the Cabinet, several opposition parties have now threatened on whom it depends on its survival. The strongest party in Parliament, the National Association (RN) of Marina Le Pen, has accused the government of “turning against the French than being solved by the problem of wasting”. “If François Bayra does not correct his job, we vote for his dismissal,” Le Pen warned on Tuesday on the network X. Until recently, she claimed that the fall of the government would not benefit the French.
Mathilde Panot, chairwoman of the parliamentary club, promised to submit a proposal to pronounce distrust because Bayra “declared a social war”.
“The only possible way is the vote of distrust,” said the chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) Olivier Faure and condemned the “series of violent measures” that will lead to “the complete destruction of the French social model”.
Prime Minister Bayroa has so far settled eight votes on the voting of distrust initiated by the left -wing parties, but did not support RN or socialists.
According to Le Monde, the center of the opposition criticism is the most visible measure for the French public – a proposal to cancel two public holidays. Bayrou presented as an example of Easter Monday and the Day of Victory over fascism in Europe, which falls on 8 May. The second of them was angry with the leader of ecologist (LE) Marine Tondelier. “How exactly are we supposed to interpret it?” she asked.
Trade union mobilizations
Bayroua’s proposals were identified by Éric Coquerel from the extreme left -wing stubborn France (LFI) as a “social and economic disaster”. His party colleague Manuel Bombard, in turn, said that the petitioner of such “brutality plans to people” will, of course, be dismissed.
CGT Sophie Binet, Secretary General of the Trade Union, has called on Wednesday to “mass mobilization of all fields” since September against the budget, which she described as “not only very unfair to workers, but also dangerous to the country”.
The “shortcomings” of the budget was even criticized by Laurent Wauquiez from the center -right side of the Republicans (LR), which usually supports the government.
The proposal of the next year’s budget should be introduced in October in Parliament, where Bayrou does not have enough votes to approval without the support of the opposition. Now, according to the British daily, he has three months to try to get his opponents on his side. In the current state of affairs, however, it seems likely to face a proposal to express distrust, as in December last year, when his predecessor Michel Barnier was overthrown, The Guardian added.
