French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Tuesday rejected calls for President Emmanuel Macron to resign to end the country’s political crisis, calling him a guarantor of stability.

In a televised interview ahead of Wednesday’s no-confidence vote that looks set to topple his government, Barnier said he remained open to budget talks with the far-right National Rally and other parties, but warned there was a lot of tension in the country. and that everyone should be careful.

“It has popular legitimacy”

“He was elected for five years, he has popular legitimacy, he was clearly elected,” Michel Barnier said of Emmanuel Macron, whose resignation is being called for by the opposition because of the political framework.

“Each of us has a role to play,” he added.

“I see the markets, the spreads, I see we are above Greece,” Barnier said of the impact of political instability in France on market confidence.

“The impact of this volatility, you’ll see it immediately in interest rates,” he said, warning at the same time that he sees “a lot of tension in our country and a lot of anger,” and that’s why “care is needed,” he said.

In fact, the French Prime Minister expressed his belief that the motion of censure of the opposition may not be upvoted tomorrow.

Asked about it during the television interview, Michel Barnier said that it “depends on the deputies who each have a share of responsibility before the French”.

If the motion of censure passes, everything will be more difficult and more serious for the French

“If the motion of censure passes, everything will be more difficult and more serious,” warned Michel Barnier on the eve of the examination of the NFP’s motion of censure in the National Assembly.

He even emphasized that he knew from the beginning of his term that this is a “fragile and ephemeral situation”

“I arrived in this office three months ago saying to myself that I could leave the next morning, because it is a complicated political issue and so complicated,” Barnier noted, stressing the lack of a majority.

Then Michel Barnier clarified that the motion of censure is not a vote for or against the same, but the focus of the vote is on the bill for the financing of Social Security. The French “feel there is no need for chaos,” he noted.

Regarding the objections of the opposition, the French prime minister assured that his government “does not negotiate”, refuting the criticism of journalists for the concessions he made for the adjustment of pensions by accepting the request of the National Rally. “There was listening and respect,” he assures.

He ruled out a new candidacy

Michel Barnier has ruled out a new bid for prime minister if the impeachment motion is passed.

“I want to serve but what does that mean, if I fall tomorrow I will remain as if nothing has happened?”, answered the prime minister when asked about it.

“Official cars, the gold of the Republic, I don’t care, that’s not the issue, it doesn’t concern me.” What is happening goes far beyond my situation,” added the French prime minister.