President of the Gauls Emmanuel Macron He held meetings with parliament and senate leaders ahead of an address to the nation on Thursday evening as pressure grew to quickly install a new prime minister in the historic fall of the French government.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier met Macron at the right time to hand in his resignation letter, a day after his minority coalition was formed. first to draw with no confidence in the vow more than 60 years and only three months after he entered office.
As France entering a period of political turmoil, the Elysée issued a statement to say that Barnier’s resignation had been accepted. The Barnier government would deal with current issues until a new government is formed, the Elysée said.
Macron had lunch with Francois Bayrou, a close politician and veteran centrist, amid speculation that he could succeed Barnier in the difficult task of leading a deeply divided parliament.
Macron will address the nation in a televised speech at 8pm on Thursday evening, at the Elysée Palace, he said.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly and a member of Macron’s centrist party, met Macron on Thursday and urged him to move quickly.
“There should be no political uncertainty,” Braun-Pivet told France Inter radio. He said that a new prime minister should be appointed quickly. “We don’t need a leader who can talk to everyone and we need a new budget bill.”
Barnier said in his final speech that a vote of no confidence in his government would “make everything more difficult and difficult”.
Barnier’s forced exit comes after parliamentary elections were snapped this summer, which the outcome of the suspension of the council with no party having an overall majority and the far right holding the key to government survival.
Macron’s term in office runs until the spring of 2027. Some – though not all – of his opponents have begun calling for his resignation. He dismissed the argument by resigning. The reduced parliament remains unchanged as no new legislative elections can be held until at least July.
The motion of no confidence, brought by the leftist party in the national assembly, comes amid the post next year’s budget, after the prime minister was forced out on Monday by the social security bill without a vote.
With the greatest support of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Party, a majority of 331 MPs in the 577-member chamber voted to oust the government.
Speaking on TF1 television after the vote, the leader of the National Socialists, Marine Le Pen, said “we had to make a choice and our choice to protect the French” from a “toxic” budget. Macron also accused Le Pen of being “mainly responsible for the current situation”, adding that “the pressure on the President of the Republic will be stronger and stronger”.
The first vote of no confidence was successful since the defeat for Georges Pompidou’s government in 1962, when Charles de Gaulle was president.
“We are now calling for Macron to,” Mathilde Panot, head of the hard-left parliamentary party of France Unbowed (LFI) party, told reporters, “the first presidential election” urged to resolve the political crisis deeper.
Wary of risking the collapse of the government, Le Pen said in a televised interview that her party – once a new prime minister is installed – will “work” and help create a “provision acceptable to all”.
In an editorial, Le Monde said that Le Pen was overthrowing his supporters, such as retirees and business leaders, to overthrow the government. “In the space of a few minutes, the policy of the organization which he had consistently pursued was shaken,” he said.
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Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the right-wing delegation in parliament, said the right and the hard left bore responsibility for the no-confidence vote that would “plunge the country into instability”.
There are few candidates for the office of prime minister, but the best defense minister Sebastien Lecornu and Macron’s centrist ally Francois Bayrou are possible contenders.
On the left, Macron could turn to former Socialist PM and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, a contender in September.
Barnier was the fifth prime minister since Macron came to power in 2017, serving for a shorter time each time. Given the clouded data, the new nominee risks an even shorter term than Barnier, whose tenure was the shortest of any administration since the Fifth Republic began in 1958.
Macron may quickly appoint a new prime minister, several sources told AFP. A source close to Macron said the president, who has taken the time of the past appointments, “no choice” but to do so within 24 hours.
Macron calls to resign.
With the markets nervous and France looking to the public-sector sector, the threat of action that will close schools and disrupt trade is growing, and there is a growing sense of crisis. Civil servant unions, including employers and air traffic controllers, called on Thursday to strike on individual cost-cutting measures.
“His failure” ran on the front page of the daily Liberation, with a picture of Macron, whose term runs until 2027.
Meanwhile, the president is hosting a major international event on Saturday with the renovation of Notre Dame Cathedral after the 2019 fire with guests including Donald Trump on his first foreign trip since it was renovated.
Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press contributed to this report