Posted on 09/08/2025 6:20:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months.
Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him. Bayrou paid the price for what appeared to be a staggering political miscalculation, gambling that lawmakers would back his view that France must slash public spending to rein in its debts. Instead, they seized on the vote that Bayrou called to gang up against the 74-year-old centrist who was appointed by Macron last December.
The demise of Bayrou’s short-lived minority government — now constitutionally obliged to submit its resignation after just under nine months in office — heralds renewed uncertainty and a risk of prolonged legislative deadlock for France as it wrestles with pressing challenges, including budget difficulties and, internationally, wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the shifting priorities of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Frogs are all about White Flags?
La Pen? Yeah, I know. No far rightees. Imbeciles.
Is there a French equivalent of Craigslist?
Maybe Macron can post a job opening there, probably for free.
No one wants to deal with their debt. And to cut spending means they cut the kickbacks and grift to the politicians.
Correct.
France is fighting a war in Ukraine and Gaza?
Who knew!?
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“Bayrou paid the price for what appeared to be a staggering political miscalculation, gambling that lawmakers would back his view that France must slash public spending to rein in its debts”
Was he wrong? Where was the money going to come from to keep socialism / muzzie ghettos fully funded? The only question remaining is when do the butter knives come out?
I hear there now a movement to impeach Macaroon.
Ukraine war AND climate change and illegal aliens.
Yup.
If the French government collapsed, would it make a sound? And, would anyone really notice?
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