PM Bayrou: parties in civil war, they want the government to fall

French Prime Minister François Bayrou, who is most likely heading for a vote of no confidence in his government by the Assemblée Nationale tomorrow, denounced political forces 'in civil war against each other' in parliament for the past three years, who are 'teaming up to bring down the government'. "Here are political formations that not only don't agree on anything, but are in open civil war with each other.... and are teaming up to bring down the government," Bayrou said at the microphones of one of the most followed online media, Brut.

Marine Le Pen confirmed that the Rassemblement National (RN) will not vote confidence in the Prime Minister, a vote she called 'a pitiful blackmail'. Speaking in Hénin-Beaumont, Marine Le Pen declared that France has become 'the sick man of Europe'. A situation that, according to her, is linked to the 'economic quagmire' in which the country has found itself because of Emmanuel Macron.

The leader of the Republican deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, granted "freedom of vote" to the 50 or so members of his group on the confidence motion presented by Bayrou, in contrast to the party leader, Bruno Retailleau, who urged them to support the prime minister. "I never ask my deputies to vote against their conscience," Laurent Wauquiez said on La Chaîne info, assuring that Les Républicains (Lr) deputies "are not puppets".