As it was widely expected – and was predicted here in TGP – the French government has collapsed.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been ousted after getting crushed in a no-confidence vote. MPs overwhelmingly supported the motion against him a mere three months after he was controversially appointed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Opposition parties tabled the no-confidence motion after the outgoing PM used special powers to ram through his budget without a vote.
BBC reported:
“It marks the first time the country’s government has collapsed in a no-confidence vote since 1962. The development will further France’s political instability, after snap elections in summer led to no single group having a majority in parliament.
MPs were required to either vote yes or abstain from Wednesday’s vote, with 288 votes needed for the motion to pass. A total of 331 voted in support of the motion.”
Barnier and his cabinet will now resign, and the budget that they were negotiating is scrapped.
Barnier will stay as ‘caretaker prime minister’ until Macron chooses a successor.
France is adrift until Macron appoints a new Prime Minister.
“Both the left and far right had tabled motions of no-confidence after Barnier pushed through reforms to social security by invoking presidential decree on Monday, after failing to win enough support for the measures.”
The left-wing alliance New Popular Front (NFP) and right-wing National Rally (RN) both deemed Barnier’s budget unacceptable.
“’We have reached a moment of truth, of responsibility’, [Barnier] said, adding that ‘we need to look at the realities of our debt’. ‘It is not a pleasure that I propose difficult measures’.”
RN’s Marine Le Pen said there was ‘no other solution’ than to remove Barnier, and added that she is not asking for the resignation of Macron.
“However, Le Pen added that ‘if we do not respect the voice of voters and show respect for political forces and respect for elections’, then pressure on the president will ‘obviously be stronger and stronger’.”
Macron has said he would not resign whatever the outcome of Wednesday’s vote, and vowed to quickly appoint another Prime Minister.
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