Far-right and left-wing parties said they will vote for a no-confidence motion against the prime minister
French prime minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech during the voting session on the draft of the social security bill 2025 in the national assembly government is all but certain to collapse later this week after far-right and left-wing parties said they will vote for a no-confidence motion against the prime minister,
“The French have had enough,” she said. “Maybe they thought with Michel Barnier things would get better, but they were even worse.” Barnier’s struggles to get the 2025 budget through a deeply divided parliament threaten to plunge France into its second political crisis in six months, underlining the instability that has taken hold in countries across the EU.
The use of the tool, called article 49.3, allows the government to pass legislation without a parliamentary vote but leaves it exposed to no-confidence motions.
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