US EditionFrench Prime Minister Bayrou Ousted in No-Confidence Vote
- French lawmakers toppled Prime Minister François Bayrou’s minority government in a 364-194 confidence vote on Monday.
- Bayrou's bid to secure approval for a nearly 44 billion euro austerity plan aimed at reducing France's 3.3 trillion euro debt caused the collapse amid a fractured legislature from June 2024 elections.
- Opposition parties including Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed, and the Socialists unanimously rejected Bayrou’s budget, deepening political deadlock.
- Bayrou called France’s debt crisis a “silent, underground, invisible, and unbearable hemorrhage” and urged action, while Le Pen demanded snap elections, calling the government a “phantom government.”
- President Macron now faces a difficult decision: to reinstate Bayrou, name a new prime minister who can withstand a no-confidence vote, or call for early parliamentary elections amid escalating political uncertainty and demands for change.
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After the lost vote of confidence, France's Prime Minister Bayrou has resigned, and the mood in the country is tense, and national protests are announced for tomorrow.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou submitted his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday.
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