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It was France's first successful vote of no confidence in more than 60 years. Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, lost a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly on Wednesday after left ...
Two motions of no confidence in the minority government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne were tabled on 17 March 2023 in the French National Assembly.. One motion was proposed by a cross-party alliance that included the left-wing NUPES and the regionalist LIOT (introduced by Bertrand Pancher and defended by Charles de Courson); the other by the right-wing populist National Rally (introduced ...
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday survived two no-confidence votes in parliament, paving the way for the adoption of a much-delayed 2025 budget seen as key to cutting France's ...
French lawmakers ousted Prime Minister Michel Barnier with a no-confidence vote in the government Wednesday, the first time since 1962. Parliament members on the far right and far left joined ...
In December, a no-confidence motion forced conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier to resign as all opposition forces, from the hard-left to the far-right, joined to bring the government down. Barnier had been named to solve the political impasse created by last year’s elections, but his proposed austerity budget deepened divisions.
The budget proposal received significant criticism from the left, with Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure accusing Barnier of "turning towards the far-right to avoid a no-confidence vote." [2] On 2 December, Barnier invoked Article 49.3 of the French Constitution in order to enact the budget proposal without a formal vote by the National ...
John Diefenbaker (1963) – loss of confidence supply as a result of cabinet revolt; Pierre Trudeau (1974) – loss of confidence supply [a] Joe Clark (1979) – lost a budget vote; Paul Martin (2005) – opposition triggered motion [b] Stephen Harper (2011) – motion of no confidence that held the government in contempt of Parliament.
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 ...