Retreats in France: After the Failure of the "Conclave", François Bayrou Threatened with Censorship
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Five months of retreating conclave, and at the end: the vacuum. François Bayrou, the current Prime Minister, promised dialogue and compromise. He left a field of political ruins.
COUNTER-POINT - In launching this unprecedented process, François Bayrou took a budgetary risk in the name of a political objective: to avoid censorship of the PS.
After the failure of the Conclave on retreats in the night, Prime Minister François Bayrou receives this Tuesday, June 24 separately the trade unions and employers organisations that participated in the four months of negotiations. An attempt at the last chance to try to overcome the blockages.
The Prime Minister wants to receive, on Tuesday 24 June, the social partners, who have failed to agree, after a final discussion session on Monday.


Political. Retreats: Targeted by a Motion of Censure, François Bayrou Is Still a Little More Fragile
François Bayrou will again face a motion of censure from the whole left. His government is unlikely to be overthrown but the episode will weaken him even more, while he is unpopular and accused of immobilism.
The boss of the SMEC, the second employers' organisation, urged Tuesday night to discuss the question of penitibility again in order to find an agreement on pensions, despite the failure of the conclave discussions, and said to have "good hope" to reach an agreement "very quickly".
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