The scale of protests will help the new prime minister assess the level of universal dissatisfaction throughout the country. The authorities are planning a distribution over 80 thousand officers safety forces and 24 armored vehicles throughout the country. This will be an impressive show of strength, rarely found since the protests of yellow vests in 2018-2019.
Employees of the French Railway, Aviation and Education Sector announce their readiness to strike, which will probably lead to the almost total paralysis of the country.
“It must hurt”
The prime minister talked on Monday with trade union leaders, and on Wednesday with socialist leaders as part of preliminary consultations related to the development of a new budget that would have a chance to be adopted by paralyzed French legislature.
The party clearly indicates that the price for its cooperation, which is of key importance for the survival of Lecorn, is high.
– The French must see the camp's failure [prezydenta Emmanuela] Macrona – said Politico a high -ranking socialist who wanted to maintain anonymity. – It must hurt.
The leader of the socialist party Olivier Faure, who supports strikes, told journalists after the meeting that Lecorni did not clearly present his budget plans. He added that His party is ready to torpedo the government for the third timeif the negotiations are unsuccessful.
– If [Lecornu] He will not want to listen to us, we will refute him – emphasized Faure on Wednesday.
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The new prime minister did not speak much about his plans in public. During the official ceremony of transferring power he promised to break with the previous government “both in terms of form and content.” He also announced that the budget for 2026 must significantly reduce the deficit, which this year is to amount to 5.4 percent. GDP.
The Fitch Rating Agency reduced France's credit rating on Friday, just a few days after the collapse of the minority government of the former prime minister Francois Bayrou, which sought to limit next year's budget by almost 44 billion euros (187 billion 260 million PLN) in order to master the growing deficit.
Socialists do not completely exclude cooperation with Lecorn, but start negotiating with the demands that are difficult to accept both for the Macron camp and republicans. These are introduction of a minimum tax in the amount of 2 percent. From people with assets with a value of over EUR 100 million (PLN 426 million), which was inspired and popularized by the French economist Gabriel Zmanan.
“You have to calm down society”
Higher taxes for the richest French citizens are one of several striking demands. In his preliminary statement of August 29, before Lecorn took over the bayrou, trade unions demanded from the government to invest in the French social security system, ecological transformation and reindustrialization. They also objected to budget cuts proposed by Bayrou.
Former President Francois Hollande, currently a parliamentarian, who often stands in opposition to the left wing of socialists, may prove to be an important interlocutor, believes a person from Lecorn's surroundings. Hollande, excluding any direct involvement in the new government, expressed skepticism about the current tax plans of his party and openness to less ambitious tax increases.
Former Prime Minister Francois Bayrou while transferring power to the new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecorn, Paris, September 10, 2025Eric Bonamy / Gamma-Rapho Via Getty Images / Getty Images
– Everything should be done to avoid the collapse of the new government – said Carole Delga, one of the former members of the Hollande office and the prominent character of a moderate wing of socialists. – Negotiations are necessary for the next budget for the good of the French – to calm society, ensuring stability and avoiding anxiety on financial markets.
Other representatives of the French left are hoping that Thursday social dissatisfaction will force Lecorn to make concessions In some issues, such as higher taxes for the rich and smaller cuts of expenses, or will accelerate the fall of his government.
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