The French parliament today voted no confidence in the government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
331 MPs voted for no confidence in the government, which is significantly more than the required majority of 288 hands.
The prime minister was obliged to submit to this procedure, considering that he had previously declared the budget for the following year without a vote based on a special article of the French Constitution.
Therefore, this draft budget is no longer valid.
The political crisis that arose after the July early elections, after the dissolution of parliament, due to the decision of French President Emmanuel Macron caused by the high score won by the far right in the previous European elections, continues in France.
Barnier was the shortest-serving prime minister of the so-called Fifth Republic, at just three months.
Before Barnier, Georges Pompidou was overthrown in this way in 1962.
Macron appointed Michel Barnier as the prime minister-designate from the fourth-strongest party, the right-wing Republicans. The United Left won the most votes in the general election, complaining that Barnier had not consulted them when making decisions, but had instead collaborated with the far-right National Rally.
The National Rally had the most votes in the June European Parliament elections, but the centrist bloc around President Macron then formed a bloc with the leftists against Marine Le Pen’s party, which is why the United Left fared best in the general election.
President Macron is now expected to nominate another candidate, at a time when no one has an absolute majority.
Photo: Alain JOCARD
