00:00Indeed, and I'm here with Eleonore Carrois, who's an MP for the French citizens living overseas in Latin America and the Caribbeans.
00:08And she's also part of the centrist bloc of President Macron.
00:12And Eleonore Carrois, you're one of the few, if you will, MPs who will be voting in favor of François Bayrou.
00:20First, tell me what you feel about this speech. Was it a goodbye speech?
00:26I think he explained the situation and also stated why he's asking for this vote, why it is absolutely necessary to reduce her deficit and her public spendings.
00:38And in that sense, I think it was important that this be reminded.
00:42Now, there is very little suspense as to what will happen next.
00:46He will probably fall. And now we need to build.
00:50And building means compromising. And I do hope that MPs are now willing to do so.
00:55And clearly, we heard all the other leaders or the representatives of the various parliamentary groups being really hard towards François Bayrou.
01:05Basically, the socialists even saying it was a moral mistake of his to call for this vote of no confidence.
01:11What do you think?
01:12I think it is always easy when you don't like a situation to blame someone for it.
01:17The truth is, even if he hadn't called for this vote, we would have had a discussion, a budgetary discussion, that was not looking good.
01:24And ultimately, a similar situation was bound to happen at the end of the year, where it would have been even harder to find a way to have a budget by the 31st of December.
01:34So, of course, this is not a very good situation to be in.
01:38But at least we do have a few weeks to find a way to have a budget.
01:42But this means, again, that people are willing to sit at a table and make compromises.
01:47And when I listen to what they said today, I think it's a very bad show that we're giving to the world.
01:52And I do think that they come back to their responsibilities.
02:10Well, I think the first question we should ask ourselves is not that much who, but why and how.
02:16How do we actually manage to do what clearly we were unable to do nine months ago and a year ago?
02:23I do think that there's a positive trend.
02:25You know, when there was a snap election just a year ago, you had the left saying we want our program, nothing but a program and all of our program.
02:34You had the right saying, well, we have Michel Barnier, you know, the former.
02:37Can you support a left-wing candidate?
02:39Can you support a socialist?
02:41Of course we can.
02:42I mean, we already supported an LR, a Republican from the right.
02:46We're in the center, and what we've been saying every single time is that we're willing to cooperate.
02:53It does not mean that we're going to agree with every single proposal that is made, but it does mean that we're willing to, you know, make a step forward so that we can land somewhere.
03:02And I think that the name and the political party of the person that is appointed prime minister is not as relevant as his capacity to actually find a compromise, an agreement for only 18 months until we have new presidential elections.
03:19And final question, presidential election 2027.
03:22But does it not look inevitable that we're heading towards snap parliamentary elections if President Macron can't find a prime minister who's able to pass laws and even the budget here?
03:35Well, you know, I've had elections every single year since I was elected in 2022.
03:39So I'm not afraid.
03:39And you've done well because you're still here.
03:40Well, but, you know, it's always a waste of money, a waste of time.
03:44And I'm always for asking people what they want, but I don't see how it would be different from what they told us a year ago when they voted massively and gave this very divided National Assembly.
03:55So I think what they really want, what French people really want, is for us, again, to find a way to compromise.
04:01It's not easy, and it doesn't look good today, granted.
04:04But, again, I do think that when you look back a year ago, there's been some progress, and I do hope that we can move forward.
04:11Thank you very much.
04:13You're, of course, an MP for French citizens living in Latin America, in the Caribbean, and part of EPR, which is the centrist bloc of President Macron.
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