Bayrou government: the die is cast

It was time for François Bayrou's pathetic Via Crucis to end. This September 8th, the die will be cast. Nine months after imposing himself through threats at Matignon, the mayor of Pau, self-sabotaged by a sin of pride, will have inflicted upon us two weeks of indigestible conceit. Before leaving, he will have picked the pockets of the sick, with three decrees secretly presented to the administrators of the CNAM aimed at doubling the remaining costs of social security beneficiaries.

We could go on and on about the case of Bayrou, a bizarre historical figure from a dying extreme center. The essential point is not there, but rather the deep regime crisis into which our country is plunged. The crisis that the government wants to pass off as a simple economic crisis linked to the weight of debt, without ever questioning the policy that engendered it.

The Macron five-year terms will have at least achieved one thing: the awareness of a large majority of French people of the impasse of supply-side policy, of the fattening of large fortunes to the detriment of the common good, public services, and the ecological transition. In thirty years, the wealth of the 500 largest fortunes has increased fourteenfold! France now has more than 11 million poor people . A majority of French people can no longer live decently from their work in a country that has become a society of heirs again!

Who can suggest that the key isn't there, in the absolute urgency of a new distribution of wealth? Nonsense about "trickle-down" or the flight of large fortunes no longer fools anyone. While Bayrou promised us chaos if the richest were taxed, the Economic Analysis Council published a study with a clear conclusion : taxing the wealthiest would only lead to a 0.2% increase in tax exile.

The sweet nothings exchanged between the National Rally and big business, ready to collaborate with the far right, reveal the social imposture of Marine Le Pen's party. One must read Jordan Bardella's letter "to entrepreneurs," to whom he assures that he embodies " the true guarantor of economic stability ." It couldn't be said more clearly... Social anger says something quite different: the vital need to change course.