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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has lost a no-confidence vote that has ousted his government and plunged the country into a fresh political crisis. Not since 1962 has a French government been ...
This decision plunged France into a political crisis [2] [3] and was followed by France Unbowed (LFI), the main party of the NFP, initiating impeachment proceedings against the French president on 31 August. The caretaker government remained in place for 51 days, [2] unprecedented since the fallen Pompidou government lasted 62 days in 1962. [4]
The French government is on the verge of collapse, ... stocks and bonds as the latest developments plunged the eurozone’s second-biggest economy deeper into political crisis. The euro fell 1 per ...
In mid-October 2024, Barnier presented his government's proposal for the 2025 government budget to the National Assembly. Focused on reducing the budget deficit, the proposal included a wide range of austerity measures, including forty billion euros of spending cuts and twenty billion euros of tax increases.
It is the first time a government in France has been forced out by such a vote in more than 60 years French PM Michel Barnier loses no-confidence vote as government collapses in fresh crisis for ...
On 7 January 2024, MoDem party leader François Bayrou said that "changes" to the government's composition were "necessary" to "open a new period", implying a change of PM was crucial to revive Macron's presidency. [32] The crisis ended when Macron requested Élisabeth Borne to resign as PM, which she reluctantly did on 8 January 2024. [33]
As French lawmakers voted to topple the government on Wednesday, several thousand people lined up outside a cafe in northern Paris for a chance to share a brief word, or perhaps even a selfie ...
On 9 June 2024, the National Rally party headed by Jordan Bardella, obtained 31.36% of the votes in the European parliamentary elections, causing French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July 2024, to elect the 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic.