The former President of the Republic believes that the Socialist Party now constitutes “the central pole of the Assembly”, after choosing not to censor the government of François Bayrou on Thursday.
Former President François Hollande judges in an interview with La Tribune on Sunday that the PS, which chose Thursday not to censor the government, unlike the rest of the left, now constitutes “the central pole of the Assembly” and has “the key until 2027”.
For the former head of state, who once again became a deputy for Corrèze, who was in favor of non-censorship, the socialists “took a major decision” and “fully assumed their role, that of a responsible opposition party, and useful.
The discussion on pension reform reopened
The government of François Bayrou escaped its first motion of censure on Thursday, tabled by La France insoumise, in part thanks to the PS deputies who, by a very large majority, chose not to be associated with it.
The first secretary of the party Olivier Faure decided to initiate negotiations with the Prime Minister during which François Bayrou agreed to reopen a discussion on the 2023 pension reform and to return to measures such as the reimbursement of medicines or the elimination of 4,000 teaching positions.
“The socialists now constitute the central pole within the National Assembly since nothing can be done without them or against them,” says François Hollande. They “have the key until 2027”.
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“The country must have a budget as soon as possible”
For him, they assumed “the compromise for the benefit of the French”, and “rejected the posture of LFI whose only perspective is to block institutional life and provoke a presidential election”.
The motion of censure debated on Thursday followed François Bayrou's general policy declaration on Tuesday before the National Assembly. Others could follow by the end of February/beginning of March during budget discussions.
“The country must have a budget as soon as possible, but this cannot be a repeat of the previous one”, considers François Hollande, ready not to censure the government if “efforts” are “made in the sense of fairness and of ecology” and on condition that the Prime Minister respects “what he promised” and does not give in “to pressure from the most right-wing part of his majority”.
Asked about the future of the New Popular Front, he noted that “since LFI announced that its leader (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) would be a candidate in the presidential election no matter what”, each component of the alliance of left “has necessarily regained its freedom”.
Jeanne Bulant with AFP Journalist BFMTV
