François Bayrou highlights two major challenges: low production and overwhelming debt. He emphasizes that unsustainable deficits and soaring debt service (potentially reaching €100 billion annually) pose a significant risk to France's social model and sovereignty.
His plan involves a two-pronged approach: boosting national production and restoring financial balance. He advocates for a strategy to regain competitiveness across various sectors, leveraging advanced technologies. Financial equilibrium, he argues, requires reduced spending, increased efficiency, and a collective effort, ruling out new taxes. Bayrou emphasizes that this requires a shared effort, involving a national conversation and potentially a referendum.
Bayrou suggests a national referendum to gain the necessary public support for the reforms. He believes that the gravity of the situation warrants direct citizen involvement to ensure lasting solutions and acceptance of necessary efforts.