An animated ministerial school year. This Wednesday, August 27, the Council of Ministers of the Palace of L’Ellysée was held, under the sign of the vote of confidence to Prime Minister François Bayrou scheduled for September 8. It must be retained in response to government measures announced last July for budget 2026, aimed at making 40 billion euros in savings.
A financial headache assumed by Emmanuel Macron, the president ensures that he can resolve. During the Council of Ministers, the head of state ensures that “the challenge can be addressed,” said government spokeswoman Sophie Primas, to her result.
“We should not be in denial or catastrophism. We have managed to straighten public finances between 2017 and 2019, while we create jobs and reduce taxes,” he recalls.
Macron calls parliamentarians to “responsibility”
The President of the Republic also reiterated his “total support” to his prime minister and his government, as well as the budget election presented by the Government.
Emmanuel Macron “is in a perfect osmosis, in perfect agreement and perfect support in issues of producing more and spending better public money,” Sophie Primas insisted.
The choice of a vote of trust is for him “a vote of lucidity and responsibility.” “We must not say that it is already defeated,” Emmanuel Macron told his ministers, according to BFMTV information. Therefore, the Head of State requires that parliamentarians choose “responsibility.”
“The government is combative (…) and continues to explain to parliamentarians and politicians, those who want tomorrow, after 2027, governing France, who because of their credibility and our credibility, we must think about the sense of the vote of September 8,” said Sophie Primas.
The spokesman also explained that no scenario of September 8 “was reflected in case of a negative response” of Parliament during the vote of confidence with respect to François Bayrou.
Source: BFM TV
