French finance minister Éric Lombard has said the government would inevitably have to compromise on plans to cut the budget deficit if prime minister François Bayrou is toppled in a confidence vote next week.
Asked in an interview what would happen if the government fell, Lombard said fresh negotiations would require it to make concessions to the left to reduce the size of the fiscal package. “It is inevitable,” he said.
Bayrou’s minority government is likely to fall on Monday after he put his nine-month-old premiership on the line by calling a surprise confidence vote on his fiscal plans.
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