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A decisive week to convince. The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, will engage the responsibility of his government during a vote of confidence of the National Assembly on the state of public finances and the extent of the effort to be made in 2026, Monday, September 8, with the very high probability of being overthrown. Before that, he took place a real campaign so as not to have to leave his post. After a first address to the French on Wednesday and an interview on Sunday in Franceinfo and three other news channels, François Bayrou will receive opposition. All party leaders were indeed invited to Matignon for an interview with the head of government. Insoumise France and Ecologists have already refused to go to these last chance consultations. Here is the program for these meetings and the positions displayed by everyone before going there or not.
Absent Ecologists and LFI
Two leftist teams refused to meet the Prime Minister. “The only meeting we will participate in is the one he gave to parliamentarians on September 8, where we will refuse him confidence”wrote the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and group presidents in the Assembly and the Senate, Cyrielle Châtelain and Guillaume Gontard, Thursday. “François Bayrou has never opened the door to the discussion before being at the foot of the wall, and he does it today by repeating that he will not change methods or objective”they deplore. On France 2, Marine Tondelier still said on Friday that “Every day, every hour that separates us from the departure of François Bayrou must, for me, be used to prepare his suite.”
For the rebellious, who have also declined the invitation, these consultations are only a means for François Bayrou de “Try to save your head”. “So we have no intention of participating in the rescue operation that the Prime Minister is now trying to introduce. So we will not go to Matignon next week”wrote on Thursday the national coordinator of the Manuel Bompard party, on x. His group will vote “Against confidence to finally drop this government”he added. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already announced that his party would launch a dismissal procedure against Emmanuel Macron on September 23.
The PS present to “offer another path”
The Socialist Party confirmed its intention to go to Matignon, learned France Inter on Friday. “We will go to say that we will vote against the confidence he will ask on September 8 in the National Assembly and that we propose another path and another method to get the country out of the dead end in which the decisions of successive governments for 8 years, under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, led him”commented Arthur Delaporte, spokesperson of the PS.
Friday, during the summer universities of his party in Blois, Olivier Faure said that the socialists were “Volunteers to be as follows” in Matignon. Openly posing in alternative, he put on the table “Another way to govern” with “The commitment not to use the 49-3, which will mechanically force us to find text compromises by text”. On Saturday, the party also took advantage of its summer university in Blois to present its activists a counterbudget, in response to the project of 40 billion euros in savings sketched by François Bayrou in July.
The PCF, the RN, Liot and the UDR received, “without illusion”
The Communists Fabien Roussel and Stephane little will be received on Monday at 5 p.m., without however voting confidence. “On September 8, this government will have to be dropped”said Léon Deffontaines, PCF spokesperson, on x. “How to trust a majority that has such a assessment, which has done so much trouble since 2017? We want a policy capable of responding to social, climatic emergencies. We want a future pact for France. We want another government”Also made the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel On the same social network.
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen will represent the national rally in the office of François Bayrou on Tuesday morning. “Whenever the Republic has summoned us, we answered its call”said the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, duringA visit to the Châlons-en-Champagne Fair (Marne)SATURDAY. Wishing to remind Prime Minister the “Red lines” of the party, he said he went to this meeting “Without any illusion”qualifying it on x of “Vain and extremely late”. The RN prefers to plead for “”The return to the ballot box, by dissolution or resignation “And Marine Le Pen has already announced that her troops would vote against confidence in the government. Their allies of the UDR of Eric Ciotti, expected on Wednesday afternoon, will also refuse “”categorically to give confidence to a government and a majority that have led France on the way to bankruptcy “wrote the party on x.
The Liberté, Independence, Overseas group, Territories (Liot) will be received Wednesday afternoon after having said that the group will be shared “Between abstention and vote against” September 8, said Tuesday at France 3Charles de Courson, member of the group and general rapporteur of the assembly budget. In a press release, the parliamentarians of this group denounced a method “Due to take or leave”.
LR and the central block in government support
The members of the government coalition will go well to Matignon, Tuesday afternoon for the Republicans (LR), Renaissance and Horizons, and Thursday morning for the UDI. For LR, the president of the party, Bruno Retailleau, and the presidents of parliamentary group, Laurent Wauquiez and Mathieu Darnaud, will be present, confirmed to Franceinfo the entourage of Bruno Retailleau, boss of the party and Minister of the Interior. The latter warned on Tuesday against a vote that would drop the government of which he is a member. “We entered the government to avoid chaos and the extreme left, it would be irresponsible to precipitate the country in a major financial crisis, the consequences of which would first reach the most fragile. To vote for the fall of the government would be to vote against the interests of France”said the Minister of the Interior in a press release. From Mount Mézenc where he was back to school on Saturday, Laurent Wauquiez, however, nuanced the position of the party. “The Republicans must not sign a white check to François Bayrou”launched the boss of LR deputies, unhappy rival of Bruno Retailleau for the party’s head.
At Horizons, party members decided to vote confidence. “The decision was made unanimously”announced its president Edouard Philippe on Wednesday have a BFMTV microphonewishing to avoid “An extraordinarily dangerous serious and political situation”. Renaissance will also vote for confidence in government. “With the deputies of my group, we have always placed ourselves in the logic of looking for as much stability as possible for our country”explained Wednesday on France Inter Gabriel Attal, the president of the group together for the Republic in the Assembly. He specifies not being “agree with all the budgetary copy that has been presented”, But prefer to find “A way to negotiate this budget”.
While the fall of the Bayrou government remains very likely in front of the announcements of each group, the coalition will have to meet in a central block, defended for the Christelle Morançais suite, vice-president of horizons, in Opinion. In case of dissolution, “Horizons, LR, Renaissance, the Modem and the UDI will have to present itself this time under the same banner and offer the French a fixed-term contract of eighteen months to save France, around a few strong measures. Édouard Philippe, Bruno Retailleau, François Bayrou, Gabriel Attal and Hervé Marseille will have to get involved in this campaign, together”advocated the president of the Pays-de-la-Loire region.
