Politics. LFI will not go to Matignon to participate in François Bayrou's "rescue operation"

La France Insoumise will not respond to the invitation extended to political party leaders by Prime Minister François Bayrou to try to secure a vote of confidence on September 8, LFI national coordinator Manuel Bompard announced on Thursday.

"La France Insoumise has already filed eight motions of censure against the government this year. Consistently, the rebellious parliamentarians will therefore vote against confidence to finally bring down this government," he wrote in a message on the social network X. "We therefore have no intention of participating in the rescue operation that the Prime Minister is now trying to initiate. We will therefore not be going to Matignon next week," he added. Even before this invitation, the leader of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot, had announced that the radical left party would no longer participate in any budget consultations.

The Prime Minister, who will speak to the Medef (French employers' association) this afternoon , will hold his government accountable for a text establishing the seriousness of the country's public finances. "Do we agree on the seriousness and the urgency?" he asked Wednesday evening. If so, he said he was ready to "open all necessary negotiations" on the 2026 budget.

All opposition parties—the left and the National Rally—have indicated that they will not vote for confidence on September 8, making the fall of the Bayrou government highly likely. The other left-wing parties have not yet responded to François Bayrou's invitation. "We'll decide during the day because I need to call the group presidents back. For now, I must admit that we don't really see the point," said the head of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, this Thursday. The National Rally has announced that it will go to Matignon next week.