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A 'High-Risk Gamble': French Papers React to PM Bayrou's 'Self ...
Prime Minister Bayrou faces widespread opposition to austerity, including protests and threats of no-confidence motions from both left and right parties.
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The abolition of two public holidays does not go into public opinion, whereas this blow represents "only" a tenth of the total effort required by Prime Minister François Bayrou's plan. Why? Employees feel like they have to bear everything when others build on stock exchanges or in real estate fortunes and seem to pass through drops.
French PM Bayrou's high-stakes gamble
EDITORIAL. By calling for a confidence vote in the Assemblée Nationale on September 8, François Bayrou took a risky bet that allowed him to remain true to his message of fiscal responsibility he has always championed, but he appears to be on shaky ground.
The most unpopular Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic, François Bayrou asks for a vote of confidence in the National Assembly on 8 September. He faces a protest from parties, trade unions and citizens against his draft budget 2026. He foresees 44 billion savings and feeds a social anger that could culminate on the day of mobilization of 10 September supported by two out of three French.
The Prime Minister, who announced a vote of confidence on 8 September, called on trade unions and employers to negotiate the reform of unemployment insurance as well as the abolition of two public holidays.
Market Consensus Morgan Stanley François Bayrou's call for a vote of confidence on 8 September. Prime Minister's proposals for deficit reduction have not liked among French public opinion, which has organized demonstrations and strikes in the coming days. Taking advantage of the noise, the opposition has already announced that they will not support Bayrou, before what Jean-François Ouvrard (our economist from France) contemplates 4 possible sce…
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