French Socialists confirm will vote against PM in no-confidence motion

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00:00Even before his meeting with François Bayrou, Olivier Faure had made no secret of his intentions,

00:07calling the Socialist Party's position irreversible.

00:11An hour-long meeting at Bayrou's office produced no miracles.

00:16The Socialists hammered the last nails into the Prime Minister's coffin.

00:20We came here today out of Republican courtesy because the Prime Minister invited us.

00:28And we came to reiterate that we're proposing a different path to the one he's proposing.

00:33He reiterated that he disagrees with us.

00:36So we have two opposing projects.

00:38That's legitimate on his part and it's legitimate on ours.

00:44And with that, a week of consultations between Bayrou and political leaders of all stripes was closed.

00:50Without an absolute majority in Parliament, the Prime Minister needed the support of either the Socialists,

00:56which President Emmanuel Macron had encouraged, or of the national rally.

01:01Earlier this week, the Prime Minister reached out to the far-right party,

01:04saying he was prepared to scrap his plan to cancel two public holidays

01:08and tighten the conditions for foreigners to obtain state medical aid.

01:12But it proved too little too late.

01:15He chose to press the eject button and hold consultations after the fact.

01:21Clearly things are going the wrong way around.

01:24The outcome is that, despite the support of centre-right Republican MPs,

01:29Bayrou seems destined to lose the 8th of September confidence vote, which he himself called for.

01:34Leaving President Macron to choose a new Prime Minister, possibly from the centre-left,

01:39after his last four centre-right Premiers failed to work with a fragmented Parliament.

01:45In the event, the leader of the Republican Parliament Group, Laurent Wauquiez,

01:49said Thursday that his group would not censor either a Socialist or a National Rally-led government,

01:54in order to avoid more instability.

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