US EditionFrance’s Parti Socialiste Agrees to Bad Deal With Macronists
- François Bayrou survived a no-confidence vote on January 16, 2025, in France's lower house of parliament in Paris.
- Bayrou succeeded Michel Barnier, who was ousted on December 4, 2024, amid deep parliamentary divisions and a challenging austerity budget task.
- Fifty-Eight Socialist Party MPs abstained from the motion, indirectly supporting Bayrou to maintain a minority government formed by the Macronist center and Les Républicains.
- Bayrou promised to keep the windfall tax on high earners and abandon sick leave tightening while targeting a 5.4% GDP deficit, up from Barnier's 5% goal.
- Bayrou faces ongoing opposition over pension age reforms, with the Socialist Party isolated yet in opposition, while critics warn that escalating tensions risk empowering the far right.
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The text aimed to denounce the "manoeuvring" of the central bloc last week, in order to speed up the examination of the agricultural law Duplomb.But it received only 116 votes out of the 289 necessary.
The motion of censure brought by France against François Bayrou's government was rejected this Wednesday, with only 116 votes out of the 289 required. The PS and the RN did not support it. The motion aimed at the Duplomb bill on agricultural simplification. - MPs reject the motion of censure LFI against François Bayrou (Politics).
The motion was unlikely to succeed, as the RN and the Socialists had previously announced that they would not vote.
The Insubmis, supported by environmentalists, wanted to send a message to the Prime Minister after the manoeuvre to reject the Duplomb agricultural law.
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