The record of Bayrou's short-lived government analysed on the eve of its likely demise
On September 8th the government of François Bayrou looks set to be toppled in a vote of confidence that the prime minister himself has called. Since his appointment at the end of December 2024, Bayrou’s government has obviously struggled because of its lack of an overall majority in the National Assembly, but it has nonetheless clearly pursued a liberal and conservative path. Here, members of Mediapart's editorial team look back at the nine months of an administration whose time in office has been marked by environmental setbacks and by its endorsement of the anti-immigration line espoused by the rightwing Les Républicains party.
DaysDays before the likely fall of François Bayrou’s government, which faces a vote of confidence on September 8th, it is hard to resist the temptation to highlight the political dead end into which the centrist prime minister has steered himself. Having failed to maintain the pact with the Socialist Party (PS) that had allowed the 2025 budget to be passed, the prime minister is now unable to get a finance bill passed in a vote at the National Assembly for the second year in a row.
