François Bayrou anticipates a predicted failure in the 2026 budget by committing his government to responsibility

François Bayrou has chosen not to endure political instability but to precipitate it in order to better extricate himself from it. On Monday, August 25, the Prime Minister took the entire political world by surprise by announcing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly for September 8 .

Without a majority in Parliament, and facing record unpopularity for a head of government under the ^Fifth Republic, the Christian Democrat is playing his last card, suspected by those close to him of having taken the lead in a probable censure of the budget in the autumn so as not to end up damaged by a stormy debate on this thorny issue, like his predecessor, Michel Barnier.

"Is there or is there not a national emergency to rebalance our public accounts and escape, because it is still possible, the curse of over-indebtedness?", François Bayrou asked at a press conference on Rue de Ségur in Paris, in front of an audience of guests (ministers, members of ministerial cabinets and central administrations and the Secretary General of the Elysée, Emmanuel Moulin ). "Our country is in danger because we are on the verge of over-indebtedness," insisted the head of government, who expressed his indignation that "for twenty years, every hour has increased the debt by an additional 12 million euros."

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