Will the French Prime Minister be censored over his proposed €44 billion budget cuts? François Bayrou is approaching a high-risk political return by holding a highly anticipated press conference on Monday, amid calls to shut down the country on September 10.

The last explanation of the text by the head of government on the subject dates back to July 15.

Since that date, and the announcement of 43.8 billion euros in savings through numerous measures - a tax-free year, a freeze on pensions and social benefits, and the elimination of two public holidays, which 84% of French people oppose according to a poll - the Prime Minister has faced a threat of censure brandished by the left and the far right.

He also faces calls to shut down the country on September 10, which have emerged on social media and are supported by Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise (LFI, radical left), who has said he hopes for a "general strike." Socialists, environmentalists, and communists also support this call.

Cautious about this movement, the employee unions, opposed to the Bayrou budget and the government's plan to reform unemployment insurance again, are considering their means of action, ahead of an inter-union meeting scheduled for September 1.

"Everyone has the right to protest, but I do not believe that, faced with such a crisis, the French response can be to block the country," Mr. Bayrou said on Sunday.

After the experience of Michel Barnier, Prime Minister overthrown after three months, François Bayrou "does not want to endure the return to school." "He's not going to wait to be censored like that. Without trying to find ways, paths, to reaffirm a certain number of things," explains a close friend of the Prime Minister.

While the approximately 44 billion in savings are "intangible," "the measures can all be discussed. I said I was ready to hear other proposals; on public holidays, for example, perhaps other dates are possible. But the only thing that is not possible for me is that we give up on awareness and the will to escape the infernal trap in which we find ourselves, that of over-indebtedness," Mr. Bayrou recently insisted to AFP.

The Prime Minister, received by President Emmanuel Macron last Thursday at his summer residence in Brégançon (southeast), is particularly expected to discuss the outlines of the "contribution of the most fortunate" mentioned on July 15. The ISF (wealth tax) was abolished in France in 2017.