Politics. Budget, back-to-school season, calls to shut down the country... François Bayrou will answer questions on Monday

Prime Minister François Bayrou will hold a press conference on Monday at 4 p.m., Matignon announced on Saturday, as the head of government approaches a very delicate political return, marked by the preparation of the 2026 budget and calls to block the country on September 10 .

François Bayrou has been threatened with a motion of censure since the presentation in mid-July of budgetary guidelines providing for nearly 44 billion euros in savings next year.

"At the start of the school year, there will inevitably be a confrontation between reality and ideologies," he told AFP this week after spending a studious summer in Paris.

The threat of censorship still looms

The Prime Minister prepared for this political return during a dinner with Emmanuel Macron last Thursday at the presidential holiday residence at Fort Brégançon.

The head of state publicly expressed his support for him in an interview published by Paris Match. François Bayrou "is my friend... my traveling companion. He has the capacity to lead this government, which is not usual," he explained, judging his budget savings plan "lucid and courageous."

But La France Insoumise (LFI) has announced that it will table a motion of censure as early as September 23, when debates resume in the National Assembly. Other left-wing parties, particularly the Socialists, appear ready to vote for it if François Bayrou's proposals do not change, and the National Rally is also threatening to do so.

The return of social partners

The government, for its part, will relaunch consultations on Monday with social partners, initially, and then with the political forces represented in Parliament.

Labor Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet will meet with trade unions and employers' organizations starting Monday before opening negotiations on the "modernization of the labor market" and the "quality of work," according to her ministry.

This negotiation is the third to which François Bayrou wants to invite the social partners, after the one on a new reform of unemployment insurance and another on the elimination of two public holidays, one of his most contested budget proposals.

Furthermore, several ministers will resume discussions with the parliamentary groups of the coalition supporting the government and those of the opposition "over the next two weeks," indicated the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Patrick Mignola.