The Fate of France's Prime Minister Is in the Far Right's Hands – Again
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France's Le Pen hands Bayrou a lifeline, but budget will test her patience
PARIS - French far right leader Marine Le Pen may have decided to let Prime Minister Francois Bayrou survive this time round, but his days might be numbered. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The fate of France's prime minister is in the far right's hands – again
Prime Minister François Bayrou, who has no majority in Parliament, has lost the Socialists' 'indulgence.' Now, if the far-right Rassemblement National were to back a vote of no confidence, he would fall, like his predecessor Michel Barnier.


Under pressure on the left as well as on the right, Prime Minister François Bayrou faces growing mistrust in the Assembly. Threatened by a motion of censure by the socialists and criticized on the question of proportionality, he tries to preserve his majority while avoiding dissolution.
The letter of 1 July by Pablo Pillaud-Vivien This Tuesday will be voted the motion of censure tabled by the Socialist Party. A motion to prove its opposition... but which does not hide that the parliamentary left is sinking into strategic break-up. The act is political but the moment reveals above all the institutional impasse and cynicism of role-playing in the Assembly. It is a motion of censure that is not really one, or rather: a motion of c…
The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, at the Hôtel de Matignon, in Paris, on 26 June 2025. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS L-un posterizes his determination, the other reaffirms his opposition. "There is a majority for the proportional to the National Assembly", the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, Sunday 29 June, in the program "The Grand Jury" of RTL-Public Sénat-Le Figaro. A few hours later, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, replied to …
On January 3, 2023, Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister, proposed to parliamentarians a law on extending the legal age of retirement. The law will be adopted on April 14, 2023. For two years, this reform has been crippling hexagonal political life. Since the enactment of this law, Emmanuel Macron has appointed two prime ministers whose age exceeds seventy spring: Michel Barnier (LR) and François Bayrou (Modem). This debate also cripples the left for…
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