Bayrou has been trying to get lawmakers on board with an unpopular €43.8 billion budget squeeze aimed at reining in France’s budget deficit.
By calling a confidence vote on Sept. 8 — two days before a planned nationwide shutdown and two weeks before MPs were expected to return to work — Bayrou is gambling that lawmakers can at least agree that France’s dire financial situation needs rectifying, but the odds appear stacked against the longtime centrist.
Leaders from the far-left France Unbowed, the center-left Socialists and the far-right National Rally, including Marine Le Pen, have already vowed to support toppling the government.
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