French far right, hard left reject compromise deal to save PM

AFP | Paris

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France’s far-right and hardleft parties yesterday rejected a compromise with Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his government’s cost-cutting budget, saying it was “too late” to make a deal.

Bayrou has staked his political survival on a confidence vote he called for September 8, after months of deadlock over the government’s plans to slash the country’s mounting public debt. But with the far-right and left-wing parties pledging not to back him, his premiership appears doomed, only months after he took office in December.

“Too late. Mr prime minister, you have missed many opportunities to construct a budget that benefits the French people,” the far-right National Rally’s (RN) deputy leader Sebastien Chenu told TF1 television.

“The page has been turned. Dialogue is in the past.”