French PM Bayrou set to lose no-confidence vote as talks end without breakthrough

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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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