France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Wednesday, 27, that his conviction is that there should be an agreement for the current parliamentary scenario, in which the government faces a vote of confidence on September 8 amid dealings for the approval of cuts in the 2026 budget. “We cannot force him,” he said in an interview with TV1. “The life of the nation is at stake,” said Bayrou, recalling the economic restrictions that weigh on France.
About the vote of confidence, he said, “Today, a priori, we cannot get that confidence, but we know that there has been no majority for a long time.” The Prime Minister said he “ready to discuss all issues except one: the effort we will make to get France out of over-indebtedness,” repeating the question he believes should be asked: “Do we agree with the gravity and urgency” of the situation?
About a dissolution of the National Assembly, which has been defended by opposition sectors, in the face of probable defeat on the 8th, he said: “Is another dissolution will allow us to have stability, will and determination as a country and its leaders to move on?
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“I do not believe in tricks,” the prime minister replied when asked what he would do if Emmanuel Macron would bring him back to prime minister if the vote of confidence were rejected: “We defend the general interest.”
In his account on social network X, the leader of the insubmissive France party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, wrote: “Bayrou, confused, confuses numbers and arguments. He scares and lies. Populist and anti-partisan rhetoric. And he? He voted for an additional trillion. Macron! ”
