The French Prime Minister seems to marry two official holidays with a bold offer to reduce national debt

French Prime Minister Francois Bayro has suggested that he reduce two official holidays as part of a budget proposal for 2026 to reduce overall costs, while increasing defense costs.

Byro offered the Easter wasp on Monday and May 8, a day that celebrates the Allies’ victory at the end of World War II in Europe.

He said the various banking holidays have turned May into May Gruyère – Swiss cheese full of holes – although it added that it is open to other suggestions.

Bayrou risks voting his budget in parliament in the fall, which could eventually make his government collapse.

But on Tuesday, he stressed that France, the second economy of the euro area – was “in the death danger” to be crushed by the debt.

Standing in front of Lectern, decorated with the words “The moment of truth”, Byiro speaks for more than an hour, outlining a series of bold measures that he believes should put the annual budget deficit under control.

These include freezing public spending for next year, termination of tax breaks for the rich and reducing the number of civil servants.

The budget must also take into account President Emanuel Macron’s call for France’s defense costs to rise up to € 3.5 billion (£ 3 billion) next year and then another 3 billion euros in 2027.

But the proposal to cut the two May public holidays were the most attractive proposal. Bayro said Easter Monday has no “no religious meaning” and the whole nation had to work and produce more.

The idea made him titles immediately – and attracted a condemnation from several countries.

The park of the far right national rally (RN) cursed it as an attack on French history and on French workers, while Green Party leader Morne Tondlier complained that the day in which the victory against Nazism was commemorated would no longer be a holiday.

Pressed by reporters after his speech, Bayro said his proposal was “the main arithmetic”.

“If we want to stay on a course, we have to find more than € 40 billion,” Bayro argues, referring to 43.8 billion euros, France should be canceled from its budget to take advantage of a debt, which he believes increases by 5,000 euros every second.

The French government aims to reduce the deficit from 5.8% last year to less than 4.6% next year and to 3% by 2029, Bayro said.

The Centrist’s Prime Minister has been only working since December, following Michel Barnier’s short -lived premiere.

The Barnier government uses enforcement powers to run its own bill that seeks to take advantage of France’s deficit through even a survest budget than Bairu.

This move turned out to be unacceptable to national rally and left -wing parties that all voted against Barnier, Causes the government to collapse by voting without confidence For the first time since 1962

The same factions now threaten to do so when Bairu’s budget is voted in the fall.

Jean-Luc Melenschon of the radical left-wing France Unlocked (LFI) said the prime minister should be expelled while RN Marine Le Pen’s leader accused Bairu of prefering to “attack the French, workers and retirees instead of reducing wasting.”

But Byiro said his government “wants to change things” to restore public finances and do it “despite the risk” of vote of insensitivity.

From the election of Snap’s surprise from last summer, the French Parliament is deeply divided into three blocks that resisted to work together. Other elections can lead to such impasse.

If the Bayrou government shrinks President Macron, he will have to choose a heir or appoint an unexplored technocrat’s government – none of them would be pleasant for MPs.

His own popularity is below 25% and there was a flame to retire from the end of his second term in 2027 – something he constantly resists.