Manuel Bompard: "There is no other solution than an early presidential election"

After François Bayrou, Emmanuel Macron? This is, in any case, the slogan of the rebels who, beyond the vote of confidence on September 8, are banking on the mobilization of September 10 to force the head of state to resign. Ready to commit his movement to an early presidential election, the national coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, does not believe in the possibility of a left-wing government, which the socialists are calling for.

After a vote of confidence in the form of a parliamentary referendum on the deficit he considers abysmal, François Bayrou will fall on September 8. How would you address the state of public finances?

I dispute the catastrophic nature of the diagnosis. Today, the debt burden is lower than it was in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For every debt issue, France finds three buyers. France is not on the verge of...