François Bayrou's speech: a gamble to add flair to his fall

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Me or the chaos of over-indebtedness and the country's submission to the financial markets. In a speech painting, as he had already done in mid-July , an apocalyptic portrait of the country's financial situation, François Bayrou unfolded this Monday, August 25, during a press conference, the tragic diagnosis that he has always made and for which he blames all the governments that preceded him for the past twenty years. His stated objective was to make the French people aware of the extreme gravity of the moment, in order to better put pressure on each of the parliamentary groups.

But the exercise changed in nature when the Prime Minister took everyone by surprise, visibly even the main ministers of his government,