Madrid
French prime minister François Bayrou, will submit on September 8 to the guarantee of Parliament for its unpopular savings plan of 44,000 million euros in the 2026 budgets with a vote of confidence before the first major protest convened for day 10.
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If the prime minister did not exceed the vote of confidence in the National Assembly -a possible scenario, since the centrist and conservatives who support him have no absolute majority -, he would have to resign and a new government crisis would occur.
Bayrou, which appeared on Monday at a press conference, has insisted that a “clarification” is needed about the budgetary situation and the way of correcting it and the place to do so is “the Parliament” and not “in the disorders in the streets.”
Aware of his lack of clear majority, the Head of Government has justified that motion of confidence that opens the doors to a fall of the Executive and the instability that can come next with the argument that it would be more risky to do nothing. “If you have a majority, the government is confirmed. If you don’t have it, the government falls,” he summarized.
The ultra -rightist Marine Le Pen has already announced on Monday that he will vote against the motion of trust of the French prime minister, just as Bardella, the leader of his party.
Could open a government crisis
Bayrou, who has been in office for just nine months, insisted that “the risk” of a new political crisis – after the one lived in 2024 with the call for early elections – “is the condition for the French to become aware” of the severity of the situation.
He was available to receive “all parliamentary groups”, but warned that “he will not abandon” the adjustment plan proposed in July, which includes a freezing of certain benefits, cuts in social programs and, perhaps the most controversial measure, the suppression of two holidays.
The objective is to initiate a path to reduce the public deficit, which has run out in recent years and reached 5.8% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024.
Of the 5.4% planned for this 2025, the Government is confident that with the proposed measures decrease to 4.6% of GDP in 2026, in a path that would allow to reach 2029 with a 2.8% deficit, below 3%, which is the top established in the stability and growth pact of the European Union.
