Statements by François Bayrou and Marine Le Pen on the French public debt

One week before the vote he requested in the Assembly, the Prime Minister gave a long television interview this Sunday evening from Matignon.

“It is high time to clean the Augean stables”: Marine Le Pen castigates the “record rates” of French debt. “The rates at which France borrows have reached sad records since the financial crisis of 2008,” the boss of the RN underlined on X, the day after a new surge in sovereign debt.

Young people are “reduced to slavery” to repay the debt decided by “previous generations”, criticizes François Bayrou. “That a generation does not think of the next generation, that it imposes on them, without telling them, the burden of having to pay for decades, for the facilities that we have encountered today, this is not normal,” the head of government said this Thursday.