As Francois Bayrou’s minority government looked like to lose a confidence vote next month, fears of a fresh political crisis surged over France on Tuesday. The nation was taken aback Monday when France’s troubled prime minister revealed that he has requested that President Emmanuel Macron call an emergency meeting of parliament on September 8.
The major opposition parties, ranging from the hard-left to the far-right, stated they would not support the prime minister’s plan, despite the fact that Bayrou needs legislative support for his austerity measures to lower France’s skyrocketing public debt. As calls to hold a statewide shutdown on September 10 to protest Bayrou’s proposed budget cuts grew, the announcement was made.
The National Rally party, led by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, has abstained from past votes of confidence against Bayrou, letting him to remain in power. Now, she says she wants the parliament to be dissolved and new elections to be held.
Firebrand on the hard left According to Jean-Luc Melenchon, who has made fruitless attempts in the past to overthrow Bayrou, Macron should step down if the 74-year-old loses this time. The leader of France Unbowed, a hard-left group, declared on Tuesday that Macron is in anarchy and that he would introduce a resolution of no confidence against the president in parliament.
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