“We really have requirements for this new regime,” said government spokesperson

“We have no naivety,” said Sophie Primas, government spokesperson, invited Wednesday in Franceinfo evening. She also recalled that France condemned “all violence, all the assassinations of the Alawites”.

“We have to talk about is a question of responsibility, with this new regime. Dialogue is not to endorse a certain number of things”, said on Wednesday May 7 in Franceinfo evening, Sophie Primas, government spokesperson, concerning the first visit to the Elysée of Syrian President Ahmed al-Charaa.

“We have no naivety and we really have requirements with this new regime”she added, adding that the government “Is not naive on who is this temporary president” in the jihadist past. “In Syria, the situation was really catastrophic and we no longer had a real link”advance the government spokesperson, adding that “Syria is a very important state for France”. Sophie Primas notably advances security issues and the interests of France in Syria, whose situation of French fighters held in the Kurdish camps in the north of the territory, or the security of neighboring Lebanon.
Thanks to the resumption of this dialogue, Sophie Primas assures that “We have already obtained a certain number of advances which are very important for us”. Among them, “The presence of communities within the government, the place of women and the inspections in Syria on the proliferation of chemical weapons to destroy them”. The spokesperson also recalls that France condemns “All violence, all the assassinations of the Alawites”.

“The Prime Minister wanted to put the question of the budget and the reduction of deficits and the budgetary sovereignty of France in the midst of the discussion and the conscience of the French”, also assured Sophie Primas, while Matignon’s tenant’s proposal struggles to convince. In an interview with Sunday newspaper Published Sunday, May 4, François Bayrou announced that he wanted to submit to the voters, for the 2026 budget, a “Overall plan” during a referendum. A range of solutions that would relate to the reduction of public spending, essential to fill the deficits and record debt.
“What for him is very important is to put this subject in the midst of the conscience of the French, so that we can advance together on a multi -year framework of approximately two, three or four years, the time to return to the financial equilibrium which is necessary, said the spokesperson, recalling that the referendum “is the prerogative of the President of the Republic”. Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, May 13, during a special program on TF1, after 8 p.m. news.