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Defending his decision to call a vote he is widely expected to lose, Bayrou added: “The biggest risk was not to take one, to let things continue without anything changing… and have business as usual”.<\/p>\n

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“France did not have a balanced budget for 51 years,” he added, saying his government had put forward a plan so that France could “in a few years time escape the inexorable tide of debt that is submerging it”.<\/p>\n

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“You have the power to overthrow the government” but not “to erase reality,” Bayrou told the MPs, who are expected to eject his minority administration in a vote later on Monday.<\/p>\n

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His address, Bayrou’s final chance to win lawmakers over, was repeatedly interrupted by heckling from opposition parties in a tense National Assembly chamber.<\/p>\n

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“This gives me a chance to drink, it’s a good idea,” quipped Bayrou as he paused to sip water.<\/p>\n


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He accused the opposition from the far right to the hard left of risking “turmoil” in France by teaming up to unseat his government.<\/p>\n

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