Bayrou would be the third prime minister to lose the post in a year, leaving the president in a difficult political position and an impossible vacancy to fill
Bayrou says that France faces a number of urgent issues that require urgent answers, pointing to falling productivity, education, migration, and questions on how to keep the French social model alive as it faces growing deficit, demographic issues, the imbalance in the pension system, shortage of housing and increasingly severe environmental and security problems.
“The model needs to be reinvented,” he says.
Bayrou begins his speech by saying that some of his critics probably considered his decision to call the vote too risky.
But he says he believes the opposite and “the biggest risk would be to not take any risks, to let things carry on as they are, to play politics as usual.”
