Overview

• Speaking in L’Isle‑sur‑la‑Sorgue, François Bayrou devoted an hourlong address to defending his brief government’s record and elevating public debt as the defining challenge.
• He said he was satisfied with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s caution on pensions and taxation, offering only brief, conditional support to the incoming team.
• MoDem figures interpreted Lecornu’s recent remarks as closing the door to an agreement with the Socialist Party, raising concern that the RN could become the deciding arbiter in confidence votes.
• Party leader Marc Fesneau, echoing Renaissance chief Gabriel Attal, publicly urged the PS to accept an offered hand and seek a cross‑party compromise.
• MoDem is preparing for a possible new dissolution of the National Assembly, which party officials say would be detrimental to MoDem’s interests.