Leconnu will cancel his predecessor’s proposals that provided for the elimination of two public holidays, a measure that was part of an austerity plan designed to reduce the huge French public debt.
The new French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornuannounced this Saturday that it will maintain two holidays that predecessor François Bayrou predeviated to withdraw next year.
Leconnu says he doesn’t want to “harm“, And that is why it decided to“ remove the suppression of two holidays ”
“I decided to remove the proposal to suppress two public holidays,” Leconnu said in an interview with several French newspapers, quoted by. “It is always in times of impasse and tension that our country advances. My state of mind is simple: I want neither instability nor immobilism.”
Leconnu looks like this distance yourself from budget cutting measures what François Bayrou It unsuccessfully tried to impose in the French Assembly, a situation that, on September 8th.
The, who took office three days ago, also announced the intention to speak with the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Green, but not with the unsubmissive France (LFI), Extreme-Squeered party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“I want a modern parliamentary debatefrank and high level, with the republican left, whose values we know and which should be released from the unsubmissive France, which excludes from debate and prefers disorder. This will be difficult, but necessary to budget to the country, ”he argued.
In relation to the far-right party National union (RN), the new Prime Minister showed opening to speak with the deputies of the bench led by Marine Le Pen.
“If they ask me if we should reach a political agreement with RN, the answer is clearly not. However, refusing to dialogue with the deputies elected by a third of the French people makes no sense, ”he said.
Le Pen’s party was fundamental to the fall of recent governments by Michel Barnier E Bayrou.
France is trying to control spending to reduce a public debt that rises 3.3 billion eurosand a budgetary deficit equivalent to 5.4% of the country’s gross domestic product.
However, one divided legislaturesince Emmanuel Macron summoned early parliamentary elections last year, it has blocked the making of important decision of successive governments appointed by the French President.
Emmanuel Macron already appointed seven prime ministers Since taking office in 2017, four of them in the last two years. Due to this instability, which has already led to two national strikes this month, the funding conditions of the French state have been deteriorating.
Leconnu will thus be the latest prime minister to try to ensure the approval of a budget with the support of the center-left socialists and from the conservative party Les Républicains.
“I want to say to the French… let’s get”Leconnu said earlier this week, during the official inauguration ceremony, alongside Bayrou.
Leconnu made his first official trip as Prime Minister to the city of Mâcon, located in the France Center of France. With this trip to Ruralwho has had difficulty attracting doctors, the prime minister tried to address one of the concerns of the French electorate: the access to health care.
During the trip, Leconnu announced the first major project outside the budget: the creation of a National Health Network With a wide coverage so that the French can have access to medical care in 30 minutes.
