Macron goes for Prime Minister number 7.
Highly unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron leads a chaotic minority government that is nothing short of a trainwreck.
Once a promise of hope and change, former Rothschild banker Macron is a shadow of the leader he thought he’d be, and is about to have to find his seventh Prime Minister, after Édouard Philippe (2017–2020), Jean Castex (2020–2022), Élisabeth Borne (2022–2024), Gabriel Attal (2024), Michel Barnier (2024) and François Bayrou (2024–present).
On the cusp of yet another political crisis, Prime Minister François Bayrou’s shock decision to take a giant gamble and submit his government to a vote of confidence in parliament has been widely criticized.
BBC reported:
“The chances of [Bayrou] winning the vote in a special session of the National Assembly on September 8 being extremely slim, the prime minister’s days in office look numbered.
If the vote is lost, Bayrou will be expected to resign, leaving France once again rudderless at a time of immense economic, social and geopolitical uncertainty.”
After Macron has soundly defeated by Marine Le Pen’s RN in the European elections in June 2024, he dissolved the Parliament to try to get a clean slate – but things only got more chaotic than before.
“If [Bayrou] wins, it will be a spectacular vindication of his apocalyptic strategy, warning – like a lone prophetic voice – of the existential threat to France if it fails to take back control of its debt. The trouble is no-one expects him to win the vote.
[…] The four pro-government groups in the Assembly have 210 deputies between them. The oppositions – of left and right – have between them 353.”
All opposition leaders already stated that they are not going to rescue the beleaguered PM.
When the government does fall there will be renewed calls for Macron to resign, which he will not agree to.
“Marine Le Pen is leading calls for a new dissolution of the National Assembly, which under the constitution is now possible. No second dissolution was allowed within a year of the first which meant that until July there was no way out of the parliamentary impasse.”
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