Who Will Macron Appoint as Next PM After Bayrou Ousted?
Prime Minister François Bayrou is set to resign after failing to secure parliamentary confidence amid opposition from major parties and growing public unrest over austerity measures.
- Franois Bayrou's government lost a vote of confidence at the Assemble Nationale in Paris on September 8, 2025, resulting in its collapse.
- The collapse followed the expected rejection of Bayrou's budget plan amid a political crisis marked by previous government resignations in 2024.
- President Macron faces limited options and may appoint a technocratic government led by a prime minister outside current politics to manage daily affairs.
- Centrist senator Hervé Marseille argued new elections would prolong instability, while polls show a slim majority favor a technocratic approach to maintain state continuity.
- Bayrou must resign formally, Macron will seek stability without dissolving the Assembly again, and anti-austerity protests are due on September 10, indicating ongoing unrest.
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French President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou tomorrow and will name his successor "in the next few days," the Elysee Palace announced tonight.

Macron scrambles to find new French PM after Bayrou ousted
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis.
Political crisis in France and the reaction of President Emmanuel Macron to the fall of the government of François Bayrou. Marques Mendes comes in defense of Carlos Moedas and asks for "serence".
Official resignation tomorrow - The polarization between the far right and the far left will affect developments in the coming period, no political force has answers to the issues of Education, Health and security
Macron Will Appoint a Prime Minister "in the Next Few Days" and Dismiss the Call for Early Elections
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will appoint "in the next few days" a new prime minister to replace François Bayrou, who fell this Monday on a motion of confidence in the National Assembly, ruling out, for the time being, the call for early legislative elections, as called for by the ultra-right opposition. In a statement, the French presidency also informed that it will "accept" Bayrou's resignation this Tuesday. Thus, Macron will appoin…
Who will Macron appoint as next PM after Bayrou ousted?
Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. But who that replacement will be remains unclear. France 24's Clovis Casali discusses what Macron might do next with Green Party MP Nicolas Bonnet.
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