François Hollande not a fan of early censorship of Bayrou and the September 10 movement

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From one summer press conference (in July) to another this Monday, August 25th, the start of the political year, François Bayrou has not changed his tune. Even though the sword of Damocles of censorship still hangs over his head, the Prime Minister wants to make people drink his budgetary potion and place the responsibility for any possible failure on the opposition and the French people.

But if he doesn't change anything in his plan, François Bayrou will inevitably be censored, François Hollande believes this Monday on France Inter. The former president, now a Socialist Party deputy, therefore hopes that the Pau native will soften his position a little: "There has to be progress. I can't imagine it will be the same text in one or two months. If it's the same text, I don't see how Bayrou can escape censorship."

"The responsibility lies first and foremost with the government," continues the Corrèze MP, explaining nonetheless that he will not join the motion of censure that the rebels plan to submit at the opening of the parliamentary session at the end of September. Because "the debate must be continued to the end": "No immediate censure, we must wait for the submission of the text b