Posted on 12/04/2024 3:00:50 PM PST by CFW
The government of France has fallen for the second time this year, as a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, giving the former Eurocrat the ignominious distinction of being the shortest tenured prime minister in modern French history.
Just 91 days after being installed in the Hôtel Matignon by President Macron, Michel Barnier saw his government collapse on Wednesday, as Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) party joined onto a censure motion to dethrone the government launched by the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) bloc, Le Figaro reports.
While Le Pen and her faction gave Barnier’s government benefit of the doubt support following July’s snap legislative elections, in which the National Assembly was left in a three-way split between the leftist NFP, the National Rally, and neo-liberal Macronists, Prime Minister Barnier’s move on Monday to invoke a constitutional loophole in an attempt to push through effective cuts to social security payments to seniors without a vote in the parliament, saw Le Pen revoke her support from the government and announce her support for the NFP’s no confidence vote.
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Oh, that's right. He is so asleep at a table in Africa at the moment.
We need to do this to the current administration.
NO CONFIDENCE!
Bloody splitters!
Aint Parliamentarianism grand.
french fries...
Its got a significant advantage in responsiveness. Change can come much faster. PM Biden would have been gone much quicker than President Biden. Not to say his replacement would have been much better, the Democrat bullpen was never good.
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