Crossroads for Macron as Prime Minsiter Bayrou’s Government Collapses
Paris’s policy has once again fallen into chaos, while the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed Monday after the National Assembly voted massively against a measure of confidence presented by the Prime Minister besieged in a last effort to go through a national budget.
The impasse on the budget came largely following the move of the Machiavelian Macron Machiavelian in the legislative elections last summer to form a pact between his centrist coalition and the new Left Popular Front (PNF) during the second cycle of voting after the National Rally of Marine Le Pen seemed to be at the forefront of power. This decision led to a split to three within the National Assembly, without a faction capable of governor effectively.
Macron first turned to the former negotiator of the EU Brexit Michel Barnier; However, despite his reputation as a firm hand, his government collapsed in just over three months after the Eurocrat tried to pass budgetary measures without vote in the Parliament. Unable to dissolve the National Assembly for a year after the previous elections, Macron then turned to the longtime ally and the mayor of Pau, François Bayrou, in a second attempt to fill the divided legislature.
Facing the outbreak of debt and budgetary deficits – the consequences of which can lead to economic sanctions from the European Union or a demotion of the nation’s credit – Bayrou has proposed a series of tax increases on high employees, social cuts and a reduction in the number of holidays to help balance books. However, he could not convince either the left wing or the Pen National Rally to support his budget. Faced with the prospect of a defeat, Bayrou has taken a risky bet to try to call their bluff by demanding a vote of trust itself.
Presenting Monday before the hemicycle parliament in Paris, the Prime Minister said by Le Figaro: “Ladies and Gentlemen, you have the power to overthrow the government, but you do not have the power to erase reality. Reality will remain inexorable. Expenditure will continue more and more expensive. ”
“The political forces which announce that they will bring the government to fall are the most opposite political forces to each other, those which designate themselves as enemies, those which are incompatible with ideas as well as ulterior motives and which exchange insults and accusations of one end of the hemicycle to the other.”
Despite his pleadings, Bayrou was elected by a margin of 364 to 194, becoming the first PM of the Fifth Republic to be elected to a confidence he presented. Bayrou will also obtain the distinction of being the fourth prime minister of the fifth republic holding at only 269 days, after Barnier at 91 days, Bernard Cazeneuve at 155 days, and Gabriel Attal at 240. Bayrou is expected to give his resignation Tuesday morning to the president.
Bayrou’s avoidance will force President Macron to take one of the two options. He can either attempt to install another Prime Minister and continue the fight within the deeply divided National Assembly, or dissolve the Parliament and call new legislative elections.
The two main factions that have lowered the government seem to disagree on this issue, members of the new Popular Front calling Macron to appoint a left -wing government in their ranks, including socialist and environmental parties. Conversely, Le Pen’s National Rally calls for new elections, although PEN is potentially prohibited to appear to a legal decision disputed earlier this year, alleging misuse of the EU funds by its party.
Speaking before the assembly on Monday, Le Pen said: “A president is never wrong to rely on the people … Dissolution is not a whim; it is an institutional lever to get out of blockages and allow democratic functioning.”
“If there is a dissolution, we will accept the verdict of the surveys. If the people do us the honor of a clear mandate, that is to say an absolute majority, we will go to Matignon to implement, without waiting for the presidential election, a national recovery program. ”
Turning to the Prime Minister, the chief of the National Rally said: “You cannot cry in front of the cameras on the consequences of the misdeeds you yourself added”, adding that the political and right-wing political establishment in Paris has embarked on “five decades of expensive management”.
Le Pen Ally Eric Ciotti accused Prime Minister Bayrou of behaving like a “pyromanian firefighter”, saying: “You are, with Emmanuel Macron, the architects of the French debacle … You have made games on the puddles of kerosene for eight years, but we should trust you to set fire. FICE.
Ciotti suggested that the vote of confidence called by Bayrou was only a dressed resignation which would be used as a “launch ramp for a pseudo-bandacia in the presidential election”.
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