“It is an overall plan that I want to submit, he will ask for efforts from everyone, and by the extent that must be his, he cannot succeed if the French people do not support him,” said the Prime Minister in the “Sunday newspaper”.
Published the 03/05/2025 20:22 Updated the 03/05/2025 20:46 Reading time: 1min
Prime Minister François Bayrou spoke of the possibility of holding a referendum on “A coherent plan, with clear, legible proposals” aimed at reducing deficits and debt, in an interview with Sunday newspaper (JDD) posted online on Saturday May 3.
“It is an overall plan that I want to submit, he will ask for efforts from everyone, and by the extent that must be his, he cannot succeed if the French people do not support him”he said, while recalling that“A referendum can only be decided by the President of the Republic”.
“A referendum can only be decided by the President of the Republic. The government proposes, the president decides. But the question of the membership of the French to reforms is the central question “he continued. The Elysee Palace also told France Télévisions on Saturday that it was at this stage of a “assumption”.
The government of François Bayrou, who managed to adopt the 2025 State and Social Security budgets at the start of the year, by escaping a series of censorship motions, is now engaged in the preparation of the budget for 2026. It estimates that it must find 40 billion euros to respect its targets of reduction of public deficit of 5.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP) this year at 4.6%.
