François Bayrou spoke of Saturday, May 3, the possibility of asking the French their opinion on an “overall plan” for deficits on Saturday, May 3. The deputy is an announcement effect, for the deputy La France insoumise.
Published the 04/05/2025 09:46 Updated the 04/05/2025 09:47 Reading time: 2min
The referendum on the reduction of deficits, proposed by Prime Minister François Bayrou, “will not take place”said on Sunday May 4 on Franceinfo Éric Coquerel, deputy LFI of Seine-Saint-Denis and president of the finance committee of the National Assembly.
-The Prime Minister spoke, in the columns of the Sunday Journal, the possibility of organizing a referendum on “An overall plan” To reduce public deficits. This announcement comes as the government of François Bayrou begins the preparation of the 2026 budget, after having recently escaped several motions of censorship on the previous budget.
“I don’t believe it at all. Today we have an executive who no longer knows where he is going”, estimated Éric Coquerel, who considers this proposal as a simple announcement effect. He also regrets that François Bayrou does not respect the choice expressed by the voters during the last legislative elections in July: “Normality in a parliamentary democracy is that the National Assembly votes the budget”, he recalls. According to him, the government multiplies “Artifices to avoid the substantive problem: it makes minority budgets in the country”.
If the executive has so far succeeded in avoiding censorship, Éric Coquerel is skeptical about his ability to hold on time. According to him, this government does everything to avoid what awaits it “In the fall at the latest: a new censorship motion after a recourse to 49.3, because its budget has neither tail nor head”he predicts.
For the LFI deputy, François Bayrou’s referendum proposal is only a way to divert attention from the real problem: “Speaking of referendum, he avoids approaching the central question, namely a budget that is slipping”, he concludes.
