French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his government have been toppled only three months after they were appointed, making his the shortest-lived government in French history. NBC News' Claudio Lavanga has the details of a deep political crisis on Early Today.
PARIS — The reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral should have been a victory lap for French President Emmanuel Macron. Instead, the celebrations are shadowed by calls for him to step down after Prime Minister Michel Barnier handed in his resignation on Thursday, following a no-confidence vote that collapsed his government. Barnier’s fragile parliamentary coalition was the first in more than six decades to fall apart in France, the second-biggest economic power in the European Union.
Macron took a televised tour of Notre-Dame a few days ago, where he said he hoped its reopening would bring a “shock of hope” to the world, according to French media. Barnier’s government collapsed after far-left and far-right lawmakers in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, joined forces and voted overwhelmingly against him. A total of 331 lawmakers supported the no-confidence motion, dozens more than the 299 needed for it to pass.
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