Budget compromise needed if PM ousted, says French finance minister | France
French Finance Minister éric Lombard said that the government should compromise on the plans to reduce the budget deficit if the government’s Prime Minister François Bayrou is overthrown next week.
Lombard told Financial Times that new negotiations would require the government to make concessions to the left to reduce the size of the financial package.
The opposition parties said that they would vote against Bayrou and that they would drop the government on Monday, and that Lombard said that he still hoped Bayrou would survive. Lombard said he was sure that Bayrou or a successor could still have a budget before the end of the year.
He rejected the concerns of an upcoming debt crisis in France: iz We will take care of the deficits. ”
Bayrou began the last trench talks with party leaders days before the ignorance of popular ancestor squeezing measures and debt reduction plan this week.
Before the vote of confidence he sought for September 8, the Prime Minister promised to fight like a dog, and said that the “French fate” was hanging in balance.
However, the opposition parties said it was too late for him this week, that there would be no support for budget measures, and Bayrou will definitely fall, and he would drop the government and leave France in a political crisis.
President Emmanuel Macron’s centralist and long ally, Bayrou said that the next days are very important to get support for a budget compression of € 44 billion, including the scrapping of two public holidays and the freezing of most prosperity expenditures.
The first party to meet Bayrou on Monday, the communists said that Bayrou had no chance of survived in the vote. “This government will fall.” He said.
From the far -right national rally, Marine Le Pen said that after I met Bayrou this week, it was not miracle miracle ”and that the party was decided to vote for it. Bayrou said that “denial, cut and irresponsible .. National Rally President Jordan Bardella said the current government is a “sinking ship”.
The Socialist Party said it would only meet Bayrou to say goodbye to this week. The Greens on the left and other parties, including La France Insoumise, refused to meet Bayrou, saying it was meaningless.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, a key figure in the central group of Parliament’s leader Macron, said to France Inter Radio this week: “This summer should have more dialogue with the opposition parties.”
Bayrou said that he should abandon his proposal to scrape two bank holidays. However, if the government fell, the 2026 budget reiterated his confidence in the Prime Minister, saying that inter -party talks should be held to find some kind of consensus.
He’s not sure what to follow the expected decline of Bayrou. Macron can appoint a new prime minister who will face the same sections on the budget. Macron said he wasn’t in favor of calling another election.
Parliament does not have not been since the fact that Macron was called a fruitless election last June. The National Assembly is divided between three groups without absolute majority: the left alliance took the most seat, but it was insufficient from the absolute majority; Macron’s centralist grouping was lost, but still available; And the national rally won seats, but it was kept back with tactical voting from the left and center.
