François Bayrou, the French Prime Minister, has decisively lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly and must step down.
The vote was almost 2:1 against him.
Given that he was appointed by Macron, who ignored the fact that the left wing parties won a plurality of the seats, this is a good thing.
Hopefully, this will put an end to Macron's bankster friendly dominance of French politics:
François Bayrou has been ousted in a confidence vote after only nine months as prime minister, collapsing his minority government and plunging France into a political crisis.
Bayrou, 74, will hand his resignation to Emmanuel Macron, his longterm centrist ally, on Tuesday morning.
The French president now faces the challenge of appointing his third prime minister in only one year, and the fifth since he began his second term of office in 2022. His office said he would make the decision “in the coming days”.
Bayrou was toppled when 364 deputies voted that they had no confidence in the government. Just 194 gave him their confidence. Bayrou had called the vote himself as a last-ditch gamble for support, saying he needed backing from parliament for austerity measures to reduce the public debt.
France is already recession adjacent, if not in full recession. Austerity is the last thing needed now.
If they are concerned about the deficit, raise taxes on the rich.
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Politicians on the left, which won the most seats in last year’s election, but fell well short of an absolute majority, have said Macron should appoint a prime minister from their camp.
During Monday’s debate, Boris Vallaud called Macron “a defeated president” who he held responsible for “impoverishing the poor, enriching the rich and turning his back on the future”.
The Marine Le Pen, the right wing leader of RN is going to end up French President because of this.
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