Gabriel Attal: "I will do everything to help François Bayrou remain Prime Minister"

"I will do everything to help the government hold and François Bayrou to remain prime minister," declared Gabriel Attal, the leader of the Renaissance parliamentary group (Macronist), on France Inter on Wednesday, August 27. Following François Bayrou's announcement on Monday of his decision to take over the government on September 8, the Renaissance group announced that it would vote for confidence.

"This does not mean that we agree with the entire text," the former prime minister clarified. While he said he was opposed to the elimination of the two public holidays without salary compensation, he did not answer whether he was ready to make a concession on the taxation of the wealthiest with regard to the left. "We will propose alternatives. But for that, there still needs to be a government."

The former prime minister does not want another dissolution, considering that last year's did not separate the country's "three political forces . " "The only key to understanding at the moment is to know what will bring stability or not," added the former prime minister, who rejected the idea of ​​a "clarifying dissolution" : "that's what was said a year ago, and I don't have the feeling that the political situation has been particularly clarified."

François Bayrou called on Tuesday, August 26, "for chaos or responsibility" at the CFDT summer university. In a video, the head of government reiterated that "a debt of thousands of billions of euros is impossible to bear."