The legislators in France on Monday (September 8) overthrew Prime Minister François Bayrou in an extensive vote on trust 364-194, thus casting the second largest economy of Europe into the new political crisis. President Emmanuel Macron is now facing the call for the appointment of the fourth prime minister in 12 months.
Bayrou’s minority government, appointed last December, fell after an unsuccessful gambling to ensure parliamentary support for deep cuts of public spending on the solution of French balloon debt.
Bayra avoided expenditure
Bayra was looking for a vote on trust to push through EUR 44 billion ($ 51 billion) in a reduction in expenditure for 2026 to 5.8% of GDP deficit last year, significantly above the EU ceiling 3%.
“The greatest risk was to take one, letting things continue without changing something, to continue politics as usual,” Bayra told Bayra in his latest speech. “The debt submits are as a military force. Dominated by weapons or dominated by our creditors … We lose our freedom.”
Instead of consolidation of support, the legislators from the left -wing and far -right parties joined to exclude their government and emphasize the fragility of Macron’s central alliance in the fragmented parliament.
Macron’s uncertain political landscape
Macron, 47, retains control of foreign policy and national security, but its domestic ambitions are increasingly endangered. The President’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly in June 2024 and his pro -European central block remained without a feasible majority.
Oster of Bayro is watching short tenure Gabriel Attal and Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, underlining Macron’s struggle to maintain parliamentary support.
Growing opposition pressures
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right national rally, called for other legislative elections.
“A large country like France cannot live with a paper government, especially in a trusted and dangerous world,” Le Pen said in the National Assembly, and to signal the readiness of her party to entertain too much if other snap elections are held.
Urgent economic challenges
At the end of Q1 2025, France’s public debt was EUR 3.346 trillion, ie 114% of GDP. Other Prime Minister Macron will inherit Bayrou’s urgent budget challenges, along with international concerns, including wars in Ukraine and Gaz and developing US policies under President Donald Trump.
Bayra warned that the inability to reduce the expenses would worsen the debt crisis: “You have the power to overthrow the government, but you do not have much to erase reality. Reality will remain inexorable. Expenditures will continue to increase and debt loads – unbearable – will grow heavier and more expensive.”
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