French Prime Minister Bayrou fights for survival while the rivals refuse the support of the trust

The French opposition parties declared that they will not support Prime Minister François Bayrou after calling a vote of trust on September 8 on the plans of deep budget cuts.

Bayrou, who has managed a minority government since last December, called on the vote on Monday, France’s warning faced a “worrying and therefore decisive moment”. “Yes, it’s risky, but it is even more risky to do nothing,” he said, faced with France’s budget deficit.

From the national rally to the right to the socialists, the Greens and France not at the bottom left, the opposition parties aligned themselves to say that they would vote against him.

Bayrou called the vote two days before demonstrations were called through France to “block everything”.

THE Let’s block everything movement,, which started on social networks but has since been supported by the unions and to the far left, emerged after Bayrou announced plans in July for almost 44 billion euros (38 billion pounds sterling) in budget discounts.

Reacting to the news of the vote, the CAC-40 sharing index of France dropped by 1.59% on Monday, then 2% Tuesday morning.

The Minister of Finance, Eric Lombard, said on Tuesday that “collectively, we must find a way to prepare a budget for the resumption of 2026”.

The budgetary deficit of last year reached 5.8% of the economic production of France (GDP) and Bayrou said that France was in danger and that parliament would be invited to “choose the path that allows us to escape this curse (of debt)”.

Bayrou was appointed Prime Minister by President Emmanuel Macron, after the government of Michel Barnier collapsed in a vote of trust in spending discounts last December.

The prospects of Bayrou and his fragile government seem dark because they do not have enough support for the National Assembly.

The leaders of the far -right national party clearly indicated that they would not vote for him. Its president, Jordan Bardella, said that Bayrou had declared “the end of his government” and that chief Marine Le Pen said that the only dissolution of the Parliament would let France choose his destiny.

Communists, environmentalists and radical-left France, Under, all said that they would vote against the government, then the socialist leader Olivier Faure seemed to seal the fate of Bayrou when he declared to the newspaper Le Monde that “it is unthinkable that the socialists would give François Bayrou a vote of confidence”.

“We are not looking for chaos in order to speed up the electoral calendar,” said Faure. “It is François Bayrou who is to blame for political instability by offering a budget that no one supports, not even his electorate.”

Unless Bayrou can change his mind, his chances of survival are low. The Minister of Finance said there was room for negotiations, but he was very firm on the reduction of the budget of 44 billion euros.

Bayrou’s budgetary plans also include the reduction of two of France’s national festivals, so there can be a scope for the government.

The ministerial colleagues, who received little notice on Monday from Bayrou’s decision to call a vote of trust on September 8, welcomed his move.

The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, said on Tuesday on French television that the Prime Minister’s decision was “extremely courageous .. and very democratic”.

If the government collapses, President Macron faces the choice to leave Bayrou in place at the head of a goalkeeper government, to appoint another Prime Minister or to call new elections.

Bayrou made his announcement after visiting the president during his holidays in Fort Brégançon in the south of France, so Macron was fully informed of the Prime Minister’s plans.

Macron himself refused to resign, and his mandate should continue until 2027, but it was his decision to call the SNAP elections in 2024 which left France with a minority government made up of centrists and right-wing republicans.