US EditionExplained: France’s Political Crisis Ahead of Crucial Confidence Test
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Just plainly, the question of confidence that Prime Minister François Bayrou raises next Monday in the French National Assembly amounts to putting his own head under the guillotine. It is a suicide act of a government that, faced with the test of fire that involves approving the general budgets before the end of December, has had to surrender to the evidence: it will not succeed without important concessions in return.
Explained: France’s political crisis ahead of crucial confidence test
France's Prime Minister François Bayrou faces a daunting political challenge ahead of the 8 September confidence vote. Bayrou, though widely expected to lose the vote, has been meeting leaders from across the political spectrum, including Marine Le Pen of the National Rally. But what do we know about the situation in France?
By threatening to bring down François Bayrou, Marine Le Pen believes that he is the master of the political game. But it is in reality Jean-Luc Mélenchon who takes advantage of this crisis by imposing his themes and betting on the dark impulses of his electorate: prejudices, grudges, hatreds and jealousies. Will François Bayrou fall on the way back to school, as all is likely to believe when we put in press? Of course, politics can always reserv…
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced this Tuesday that her party, National Group (RN), will vote against the government of centrist François Bayrou in the...
French challenges and eurozone instability may trigger wider angst
FRANCE has enjoyed about nine months of relative political stability under centrist Prime Minister Francois Bayrou. However, the eurozone’s second-largest economy faces an imminent bout of instability on Monday (Sep 8) – which could shake global market confidence – when Bayrou’s government is expected to lose a confidence vote.
The French prime minister faces a crucial no-confidence vote that will decide the country's political fate and fiscal trajectory. The economic balance of Europe is at stake.
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