The government must resign after only three months in power. Thus, President Emmanuel Macron must start the search for a new prime minister, which is unlikely to be easy.
In motions of no confidence against the government, 331 of the National Assembly’s 574 members voted to bring down the government.
It is the first time a motion of no confidence has won a majority in the National Assembly since Georges Pompidou’s government fell in 1962, while Charles de Gaulle was president of France.
Barnier took a calculated risk when he forced through next year’s state budget by using a power in the French constitution that allowed him to avoid a vote in the National Assembly.
– It is now up to you to decide whether our country will have an economic governance that is responsible, indispensable and useful for our French citizens, or whether we will enter unknown territory, Barnier told the National Assembly on Monday.
The National Assembly did not share the Prime Minister’s view on the matter, and now France is thrown into a new government crisis.
Sources for the Reuters news agency say that Macron hopes to get a new government in place quickly, but whether he will be able to do so is rather uncertain without a clear majority in the national assembly.
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