François Bayrou continues his consultations, the PS moves closer to censorship

The new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, continues his consultations with a view to the formation of a government, Saturday December 21. The head of government hoped to attract the good graces of a part of the left but the Socialist Party, more inclined to compromise, seems to be moving closer to censorship. “We have not found reasons not to censor”alerted the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, after a meeting of political parties in Matignon on Thursday. He said to himself “dismayed at the poverty of what (was) proposed”. The tenant of Matignon promised not to use 49.3, “unless there is an absolute blockage on the budget” for 2025. He also proposed to “resume without suspend” the controversial pension reform, which failed to convince. Follow our live stream.

On pensions, a “very insufficient” step for Olivier Faure. Olivier Faure evokes “a very small opening” and one step “very insufficient” proposed by François Bayrou. The socialist is calling for a suspension of the pension reform, prior to a discussion with the social partners to discuss other financing. The idea is to achieve a repeal in September, or in the event of disagreement among the social partners, a referendum.

A letter from the socialists to the attention of François Bayrou. A call that the socialist tenors have formalized “solemnly” in a joint letter addressed to François Bayrou on Friday. They call on him to consider mobilizing “pour 2025”the “reserve fund for pensions, endowed with 20 billion euros at the end of 2024, (…) the time of suspension” of reform. “It is now up to you to say how you intend to break the deadlock”write the socialist executives.

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “François Bayrou will not survive the winter”. For the founder of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the other forces of the New Popular Front “will come home” about the new Bayrou government. “There is no majority for the budget, so there will be a 49.3 and therefore, censorship. François Bayrou will not make it through the winter!” he says in an interview with Parisian. “Only an early presidential election in 2025 will get the country out of the impasse”still judges the rebel, who already anticipates a duel with Marine Le Pen in this hypothesis.

Horizons says it is ready to enter government, under conditions. Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and his Horizons party “will answer” to the call of François Bayrou to enter his government, but proposes to the tenant of Matignon to list the “conditions of this agreement”he wrote in a letter Friday.