France ・ Government collapse

Bye bye Barnier

05 December 2024

Prime minister Michel Barnier's three-month-young cabinet collapsed on Wednesday night, following a parliamentary vote of no confidence. Barnier forced through a budget bill neither the left nor the far-right opposition blocs were pleased by. The problem? Together, they form the absolute majority of the National Assembly.

As Barnier chose to push the unpopular budget through nonetheless, the two parties responded by each posing a vote of no confidence. To Barnier's demise; his government was toppled in the first successful no-confidence vote since 1962.


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