The French Parliament oust on Monday the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou after only nine months in mandate, leaving President Emmanuel Macron to rush to find a successor and dive the country into a new political crisis.
Bayrou, who has worked for nine months, had blinded even his allies even by calling a vote with confidence to end a long dead end on his austerity budget, which provides almost 44 billion euros ($ 52 billion) in savings to reduce the debt heap of France.
Bayrou, the first Prime Minister of the History of Modern France to be ousted in a vote of trust rather than a vote without confidence, will submit his resignation on Tuesday morning, according to a person close to the one who asked not to be appointed.
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During the vote in the National Assembly, 364 deputies voted that they had no confidence in the government while only 194 gave them their confidence. “In accordance with article 50 of the Constitution, the Prime Minister must submit the resignation of his government,” said President Yael Braun-Pivet.
Bayrou has been the sixth Prime Minister under Macron since his 2017 elections, but the fifth since 2022. Bayrou de Bayrou leaves the French head of state with a new domestic headache at a time when he led diplomatic efforts on the Ukraine war.
But defending his decision to call the vote of high -risk trust, Bayrou said to the National Assembly: “The biggest risk was not to take one, to let things go on without changing anything … and to have business as usual.”
Describing the pile of debt as “deadly” for France, Bayrou said that his government had presented a plan so that the country could “escape in a few years from the inexorable tide of the debt which overwhelms it”.
“You have the power to overthrow the government” but not “to erase reality,” said Bayrou to the deputy in a final offer sentenced to saving his government before the vote.
Unpopular president
Macron is now faced with one of the most critical decisions of his presidency – appoint a seventh Prime Minister to try to rid a compromise or call the Snap elections in order to have a more accommodating parliament.
There is no guarantee that an election would lead to an improvement in the fortune of the Macron center-right block in Parliament.
And although the Socialist Party (PS) has expressed its desire to lead a new government, it is far from clear if such administration could survive.
The ministers of the right -wing right of heavy goods vehicles, such as the Minister of Justice, Gerald Darmanin, are reliable by Macron but are likely to be voted by the left.
According to an Odoxa-Backbon survey for the Le Figaro newspaper, 64% of French people want Macron to resign rather than appoint a new Prime Minister, a decision he excluded.
It is forbidden to stand for a third term in 2027.
About 77% of people do not approve of their work, the worst note from Macron, according to an Ifop poll for the daily newspaper in the western France.
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Le Pen Decision
In addition to political upheavals, France is also faced with social tensions.
A left -wing collective called “Block Everything” calls for a day of action on Wednesday, and the unions urged workers to strike on September 18.
The 2027 presidential election remains open, still open, analysts predicting the French far right will have its best chance of winning.
The triple presidential candidate of the National Rally (RN) Marine Le Pen suffered a blow in March when a French court condemned her and other party officials for a scam of false jobs of the EU parliament.
Le Pen was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, including two suspended and a fine of 100,000 euros ($ 117,000).
The decision also prohibited him from presenting himself to functions for five years, which will know his ambition to participate in the 2027 vote unless the reversal on appeal.
But a Paris court said on Monday that his appeal would be heard from January 13 to February 12, 2026, long before the elections – potentially resuscitate his presidential hopes.
Acclaimed by his deputies, Le Pen urged Macron to call the legislative elections in instruction, claiming that the holding of surveys is “not an option but an obligation” and describing the administration of Bayrou as a “ghost government”.
