The end of Barnier’s short-lived government is just the beginning of a new chapter in France’s political and economic crisis.
The toppling of French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government Wednesday night could have been seen as the climax of months of political turbulence in France.
The vote — held after weeks of wrangling over 2025 budget plans to hike taxes and cut public spending — was not a close call, with the number of deputies supporting the motion far exceeding the 288 necessary for the motion to pass in parliament, the National Assembly. It was the first time a French government has been ousted since 1962.Marine Le Pen, president of National Rally, right, during a no-confidence debate at the National Assembly in Paris, France, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.
"President Emmanuel Macron will have to appoint a new prime minister, who will have to form a new government. With the National Assembly highly polarised and divided into three main camps – left, centre-right and far-right – finding a new prime minister who will not face a motion of no confidence directly will be a very difficult mission," she said.
"France's deepest and most tangled, political crisis for six decades will stumble on throughout next year," Rahman said, warning that"the confrontation between the three, mutually-hating forces in the National Assembly will continue for many months with no early prospect of agreement on a new budget for 2025."
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