PARIS (AFP): French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who is fighting to keep his job in a budget standoff, said on Sunday that the very destiny of France was at stake during an upcoming confidence vote, which he is expected to lose.
The September 8 vote will not decide “the fate of the prime minister” but “the fate of France,” Bayrou said, during an interview with four rolling news channels, signalling he was not ready to “say goodbye.”
