French PM Bayrou risks cabinet collapse with confidence vote on major budget cuts
Bayrou seeks a confidence vote for €43.8 billion budget cuts in early September, risking another cabinet collapse if opposition parties follow through on threats to vote against him.
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00:00French Prime Minister François Beyrou has called for a confidence vote in France's National Assembly on the 8th of September.
00:09Beyrou said he announced the confidence vote to gauge whether other parties are prepared to back his minority government's plan to cut almost 44 billion euros from the national budget.
00:19He stressed that the country is going through a, quote, moment of hesitation and turmoil that needs clarification.
00:26Notre pays est en danger parce que nous sommes au bord du sur-endettement.
00:36Sur les deux dernières décennies, malgré la succession de gouvernements de tendances différentes, la dette de notre pays s'est accrue de 2 000 milliards d'euros.
00:46Beyrou's minority government is set to collapse if he loses the vote.
00:50The far-right national rally, the Greens and the Socialist Party have already announced they would not back him.
00:56The vote comes just a few months after former Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost to a no-confidence vote in December 2024.
01:04The upcoming vote will take place just two days before planned protests, which have been called for on social media and backed by leftist parties in some unions.
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