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00:00On his final day of talks with party leaders, France's prime minister seemed to have no illusions about his government's future.
00:09With no majority and unpopular plans to cut public spending, François Bayrou is likely to lose the confidence vote,
00:17which he called for, and his government is expected to fall.
00:20But he says that his unprecedented move is meant as a wake-up call for the French,
00:26so they understand the seriousness of the debt crisis.
00:31I'm doing this because the fate of our country is in the hands of your listeners.
00:36Our country's fate will not change. We will continue to sink until people understand the situation.
00:44The socialists, now in the opposition, have met with Bayrou, and they did not come empty-handed.
00:50They have their own plan to limit the deficit, with less cuts and more tax hikes.
00:56And we came to reiterate that we're proposing a different path to the one he's proposing.
01:03He reiterated that he disagrees with us. So we have two opposing projects.
01:07That's legitimate on his part, and it's legitimate on ours.
01:10Earlier this week, the prime minister reached out to far-right party the national rally,
01:19saying he was prepared to scrap his plan to cancel two public holidays
01:23and tighten the conditions for undocumented foreigners to obtain state medical aid.
01:29But it proved to be too little too late.
01:33Despite the support of center-right Republican MPs,
01:37Bayrou seemed poised to lose the confidence vote on September 8th,
01:42leaving President Macron to choose a new prime minister or dissolve parliament again.
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