The French government has collapsed after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in a no-confidence vote. MPs in the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in support of the motion against him – just three months after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Opposition parties had tabled the motion after the former Brexit negotiator controversially used special powers to force through his budget without a vote. It marks the first time the country’s government has collapsed in a no-confidence vote since 1962.
The removal of Michel Barnier will increase France’s current political instability after snap elections in the summer gave no single group a majority in parliament.
Barnier is now obliged to present the resignation of his government and the budget which was the cause of his downfall is defunct.
Both the far right and radical left 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), which won the most seats in the summer election had heavily criticised Macron’s decision to appoint the Michel Barnier as prime minister instead of its own candidate.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Andrew Harding and Katya Adler.
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To be clear
French people voted left wing in its election then macron installed a right wing prime minister to appease a vocal minority.
so this is the people and governmental wish to remove a right-wing puppet.
Germanys government collapsed because the FDP party refused to cooperate with its partners unsurprisingly FDP are a right-wing party (therefore right-wingers collapsing its government because they aren’t getting their own way.
Romania just removed its front running presidential candidate (right-wing) because of Russian influence and election interference.
South Koreas Prime minister tried and failed to install himself as a military dictator after losing parliamentary support, its government is still functioning fine.
UK just elected its nearest thing to a centrist party in almost 15 years rejecting hard right-wing populism.
Right-wingers and bots/trolls online are desperate to create this narrative of left wing politics failing across Europe when it actuality its right-wingers or right-wing puppets being rejected that are causing these issues.
Digging slightly beneath the surface shows exactly the opposite of the way these things are presented because MSM is brought and paid for to spin it how billionaires want you to see it.
Wow, what a mess of a country.
In debt ?.. tremendous expenditure for the Olympics, nothing back to the people..
BBC: Really? We don’t know what happens next. Yes we do. Procedurally, they will follow the law and move forward just like they did in the 60s. Don’t be such a gaslighter.
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