Budget announcements: with his savings plan, Bayrou displeases everyone... and takes responsibility
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During the presentation of the 2026 budget by François Bayrou, on July 15 in Paris. (Albert Facelly/Libération)
Let them come and censor me! Tempted by inaction since his installation at Matignon, accused of temporizing in order to last longer , François Bayrou made his budgetary high mass an ode to risk-taking on Tuesday. "The government does not have a majority, sometimes its supporters are not totally convinced, everything contributes to the fatalism that nothing is done," he described. No matter: the Prime Minister is heading towards the parliamentary scaffold, taking with him his government which knows itself "completely at the mercy of its opposition and, here and there, of the doubts of its supporters." After having detailed the painful situation at length, he
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