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Bayrou offers 'doom and gloom' in final speech before confidence vote © France 24

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Issued on: 08/09/2025 - 16:39

French Prime Minister François Bayrou warned the country’s excessive debt pile is "life-threatening" as he made his final speech to parliament ahead of a confidence vote that he is widely expected to lose. France 24’s French politics editor Marc Perelman and international affairs editor offer their analysis of what was an often downbeat final address by the French PM.

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