the collapse of retirement reform talks earlier this year<\/a>. <\/p>\n“It is obviously inconceivable that the Socialists would vote in favor of the prime minister,” Faure said.<\/p>\n
Bayrou had been expected to face a confidence vote later in the legislative process. By calling one ahead of the French legislature\u2019s official return to business and just two days before a\u00a0nationwide shutdown set for Sept. 10, Bayrou is effectively choosing to accelerate his fate and face the risk of a government collapse head-on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There are moments in life when only a calculated risk can allow you to escape a more serious risk,\u201d Bayrou said. \u201cIt is a matter of the survival of our state, the image of our nation, and each and every family.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
One ministerial adviser put a different spin on it. She was overheard saying after the press conference: \u201cIt\u2019s better to die by suicide than suffer in agony.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayrou is gambling that lawmakers can at least agree that France\u2019s dire financial situation needs rectifying, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,13110,164,2592,4865,70292,4961],"class_list":{"0":"post-95390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-francois-bayrou","15":"tag-national-budgets","16":"tag-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}