US EditionFrance’s Bayrou Defends Confidence Vote as Needed Wake-Up Call
- French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is seeking 44 billion euros in savings to reduce the country's massive debt crisis.
- A confidence vote has been called by Bayrou to resolve a budget dispute amidst France's political turmoil.
- The confidence vote aims to serve as a wake-up call about France's financial situation.
- France's growing debt is central to the government's political instability and the upcoming confidence vote.
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The Prime Minister assures that the vote of confidence he is seeking, which should bring down his government, has nothing to do with the presidential elections of 2027.
The Prime Minister, who ruled on Thursday that his savings plan was not "austerity" but rather was pursuing a "scaling of spending", defends his budget this morning on RTL three days from its announced fall.
France’s Bayrou Defends Confidence Vote as Needed Wake-Up Call
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said he doesn’t regret calling a confidence vote putting his government on the line, as France is “burdened with debt” and the political parties must “each take responsibility.”
Since the announcement of the vote of confidence, not a day passes without the Prime Minister speaking in the media. A strategy, worn out to the rope, intended to install his account of the political crisis. And it works, since the editorialists seem to widely share his catastrophism on the state of public finances.
In the run-up to the National Assembly's vote of confidence on 8 September, which could bring down the government, Emmanuel Macron called for the unity of his troops, but the absence of a course set by François Bayrou since his arrival in Matignon has led to the divisions between the various parties of the coalition.
They are a handful to imagine in Matignon in a few days. Still, it is necessary to be able to have a budget voted before the end of the year. Some LR say they are willing not to censor a Prime Minister...
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