The French government collapsed again for the second time in nine months:
Emmanuel Macron has faced humiliation today as his government lost a confidence vote, plunging France into political chaos after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou warned his peers to not make ‘the same mistake as the British’.
The French parliament voted to bring down the government today over its plans to tame its skyrocketing national debt, with the political crisis only deepening as the President now has the task of finding a fifth Prime Minister in under two years.
François Bayrou only became France’s PM nine months ago, but now, he must resign after 364 of 573 of the government’s deputies voted against the vote of confidence.
The 74-year-old centrist pledged to ‘fight like a dog’ to stay in power, but could not prevent the collapse of his government on Monday night.
As Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet announced the result, MPs applauded loudly and Mr Bayrou sat in silence.
‘The National Assembly has not approved the Prime Minister’s general policy statement,’ Ms Braun-Pivet said.
‘The Prime Minister now has to submit the resignation of the government to the President of the republic.’
This will happen on Tuesday, Ms Braun-Pivet added, and the current French administration will immediately dissolve.
The Front National had better not imagine that it can be successful without delivering massive change, and even bigger repatriations, for the French people when it finally comes to power as the very last political alternative.
Liberalism is dead. We’re rapidly approaching the last gasp for any form of democracy in Western Europe.