François Bayrou

Et cette, euh, donnée nouvelle rebat les cartes ces derniers jours.

La primaire, euh, notamment défendue par plusieurs personnalités, euh, comme David Lisnard et François Bayrou, a trouvé un nouveau partisan ardent en la personne de Gabriel Attal.

Mais Édouard Philippe n'en veut, euh, toujours pas.

On en parle avec, euh, Marcelo Wesfreid et Sarah Paillou.

Michel Barnier lasted 90 days before a no-confidence vote brought him down, the first successful no-confidence vote since 1962.

His successor, Francois Bayrou, was ousted after nine months when Parliament rejected his austerity budget.

The next prime minister, Sébastien Le Cornu, resigned within a month, was reappointed the following week, and only survived by shelving the pension reforms entirely.

Three governments, three budgets, three failures.

Eres incapaz de aprobar unos presupuestos medianamente estables.

De hecho, el anterior primer mini-- ministro, François Bayrou, cayó después de presentar esos presupuestos en una moción de censura.

Entonces, tienes inestabilidad política, incapacidad para sacar unos presupuestos, estancamiento económico, endeudamiento y todo eso con un malestar social.

Es muy difícil.

Barnier did manage to succeed in one monumental regard though, becoming the shortest serving prime minister in the history of the French fifth republic, lasting only 90 days.

He was replaced by Francois Bayrou, who after battling a deadlock parliament for nine months made the bold decision to call for a self-imposed vote of confidence in an attempt to push forward his austere budget.

It backfired.

He was ousted and, in doing so, became the first French Prime Minister in modern history to accomplish such a feat.

Therefore, the solutions were quickly forgot.

And François Bayrou had read my book, and we had very long conversations together.

But unfortunately, the elements, uh, of success which I had talked about were present in the prime minister at the time, but he didn't have the political backing in the government to manage my plan.

And, uh, since then, we are messing up everything.

There are layers of ten billion excess spending that are obvious.

A child of twelve years old would understand that some things are absolutely reformable.

I remember my conversations with François Bayrou.

He was asking me, "Can you write on a paper the amounts that year after year during your ten-year, uh, program we could be doing?" And I said, "It's extremely easy." And I did it, and I showed him.

I think the framing effect, it's, it's also kind of one where, uh, politicians need to pay very close attention to it.

Like, I think, you know, when, when you look at, say, the debate over the pension reform, the household savings behavior of basically of the French voter and, you know, sort of the discourses that has been used before, I think back to when Francois Bayrou was trying to sort of drum up support for a budget that would have basically delivered fiscal consolidation, and Bayrou kind of used this very classic fiscal responsibility discourse, right? Or this fiscal responsibility way of talking about things, right? It's like what you typically expect from conversations about public debt, like, "We need to do the right thing.

We need to leave, bequeath something better to our children," and blah, blah, blah.

And for many French households, you could have easily turned around and said, "Wait a second.