French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced that 8. September would seek vote on trust in parliament while seeking support for the Government Spend Reduction Plan for more than 40 billion euros.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou will look for 8. September vote on trust in parliament due to unpopular plans for the cleaning of French Public Finance.
Bayrou’s move will assess if there is enough support in the Fragmented Parliament for its budget pressure of 44 billion euros, while the budget deficit reached 5.8 percent of gross domestic product, almost twice as much as the official limitations of the EU of three percent.
If he loses a vote on trust, Bayrou’s minority government will fail.
– We face the immediate danger we must resolve, otherwise we have no future. Our country is in danger – said Bayrou at a press conference on debt.
Bayrou said that the confidence vote will focus on whether the deputies agree with the seriousness of danger and choosing the way for her resolution.
Bayrou’s stressing efforts found themselves on the target of criticism and left and right, which means that he faced the risk of mistrust, such as that was knocked down by his predecessor, Michel Barnier, at the end of 2024. Year after only three months of duty.
With his publication on Monday, Bayrou demands the vote on the fate of his government before the opposition requests a vote of mistrust.
Voting on trust will be held only two days before the planned protests, which are invoked on social networks, and supported by leftist parties and some unions.
Invitation to the general protest 10. September, comparisons with the protests of yellow vests who erupted in 2018. due to increasing fuel prices and high costs of life.
Prior to that, taxi drivers are expected to restart demonstrations against government plans to revise medical travel fees.
The protests “yellow vests” grew into a broader movement against the President Emmanuel Macron and his efforts for economic reform. Bayrou proposed the abolition of two state holidays and freezing the costs of social protection and tax grades in 2026. at the levels of 2025. year, without adjusting inflation, Reuters reports.
(Vijesti.ba/fena)
