{"id":372596,"date":"2025-08-25T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:12:11","slug":"frances-pm-says-will-seek-vote-of-confidence-on-september-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372596\/","title":{"rendered":"France’s PM says will seek vote of confidence on September 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n France’s prime minister has announced that he will seek a vote of confidence in parliament on the issue of the 2026 Budget – the vote scheduled two days before the date of a called ‘blockade’ of France in protest at his cost-cutting plans.\n <\/p>\n

Speaking in a press conference on Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou said: “I have asked the president to convene an extraordinary session of parliament on September 8th, during which I will lay out the programme for government and call a confidence vote.”<\/p>\n

Bayrou’s plans for a \u20ac44 billion cost-cutting Budget – which he insists is necessary to tackle France’s spiralling budget deficit – have already caused a massive backlash.<\/p>\n

Some unions have called for strikes, while some of the opposition parties have called upon people to support the September 10th ‘bloquons tout’ (block everything) movement.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO<\/strong>: What do we know about the call to ‘blockade France’ on September 10th?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bayrou’s minority government is also threatened with a no-confidence vote in parliament, which, if it achieves a majority, would bring down his government in exactly the same manner as his predecessor Michel Barnier.<\/p>\n

Seeking to preempt this possibility, he has decided to take the unusual step of calling a vote of confidence in himself, before the Budget debates begin.<\/p>\n

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He told journalists on Monday that this move is intended to push parliament into an “adult debate” on France’s financial situation and the increasing problem of the spiralling Budget deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said that the vote was necessary to “confirm the scale of the effort required” to tackle the public debt, before detailed debates begin in parliament on the Budget itself.<\/p>\n

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