Europe live: Macron faces new political crisis with France prime minister François Bayrou threatened by confidence vote
Bayrou would be the third prime minister to lose the post in a year, leaving the president in a difficult political position and an impossible vacancy to fillIt’s been a long summer of speculations about the French government’s future amid growing controversies about its plans for the...
<p>Bayrou would be the third prime minister to lose the post in a year, leaving the president in a difficult political position and an impossible vacancy to fill</p><p>It’s been <strong>a long summer of speculations about the French government’s future </strong>amid growing controversies about its plans for the country’s next budget seeking to rein in spiraling state deficit and debts.</p><p>But it will all be clear today as the National Assembly holds a vote of confidence in <strong>François Bayrou’s</strong> <strong>embattled government</strong>. According to the declarations from the party leaders, he has little change of securing the majority required to cling on.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/08/europe-live-macron-france-prime-minister-francois-bayrou-confidence-vote-latest-news">Continue reading...</a>
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