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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]
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 ...
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 ...
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she will seek to topple Macron's prime minister, Barnier, in the French parliament. Far right leaves French government on the brink ahead of no ...
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]
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.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address on Thursday evening that he will finish his five-year mandate which ends in 2027 despite pressure for him to resign amid the fall of ...
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 ...