Budget and political return: François Bayrou will hold a press conference on Monday

After his summer-style "FB Direct" podcasts and YouTube videos , François Bayrou is returning to more traditional ways and will hold a back-to-school press conference on Monday, August 26, Prime Minister Matignon announced. The main topic, unsurprisingly, will be the 2026 budget, the guidelines for which are to be debated in Parliament this fall.

As a reminder, the executive is eyeing 44 billion in savings to be made for the 2026 budget, and this at a time of growing social anger and the " Block Everything" movement calling for the country to be paralyzed on September 10. The left and some of the unions have announced that they are joining the movement for the time being.

The Prime Minister must convince in order to escape censure - promised by the left - but to achieve this he must enlist the support of the National Rally.