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The French Prime Minister, François Bayrou, who is likely to start tomorrow with a vote of no confidence in his government by the National Assembly, denounced political forces in...
France: What you need to know about the political crisis
France is under acute pressure to fix its finances. Saying tough decisions were needed, Bayrou, a veteran centre-right politician and Macron's fourth prime minister since Macron's re-election, sought to pass a budget for 2026 that would require 44 billion euros ($51.51 billion) in savings, including pension freezes, healthcare cuts, and the scrapping of two public holidays. This provoked an outcry from opponents. Unable to see a path to adoption…
This decision came at a time when the president of the party and minister of the interior, Bruno Retailleau, had called on the LR MPs to vote in favour of confidence in François Bayrou, during the planned vote in the National Assembly on 8 September.
ledauphine.com
The president of the deputies The Republicans Laurent Wauquiez leaves the freedom to vote to his team, unlike Bruno Retailleau who asks to support the Prime Minister.
On 25 August, some of them were still on holiday. For more than an hour, in front of the press and its ministers, he made his diagnosis. The serious tone, pedagogue, without scrambling or tangled in his papers. For the first time, he used a prompter. He reserved us a big surprise: a vote in the National Assembly on 8 September... Funny, no? That would cut the wings off all those blockages that would manifest the 10th. To see the heads of the min…
kreiszeitung.de
The French government crisis is intensifying. Bayrou is fighting for Parliament's trust, but has no absolute majority.
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