Budget: What if the Socialist Party saved Bayrou again?

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Everyone, including the rebels, understood that the Socialist Party (PS) had returned to the camp of censure. After refusing to bring down the Bayrou government on the previous budget in exchange for promises they considered unfulfilled, the PS deputies had filed their own motion of censure at the end of June (rejected). They criticized the Prime Minister for not tabling a text on pensions after the failure of the "conclave." While the mayor of Pau FINALLY announced, this Tuesday afternoon, July 15, his decisions to achieve 40 billion euros in savings, the only thing missing is for the National Rally (RN) to join the left this fall, something it has been threatening for weeks, to terminate François Bayrou's tenure at Matignon. Unless? As reported by