On the evening of Wednesday, December 4, the French parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. This was reported by Le Figaro, according to UNN.
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A total of 331 members of the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament) voted in favor of the no-confidence motion. A total of 289 votes were required for this decision.
The publication notes that this is the first such case since 1962, when Georges Pompidou received a vote of no confidence. In addition, Michel Barnier's government became the shortest-lived since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958, lasting less than three months.
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The no-confidence vote was put forward by the New People's Front (NPF) and supported by the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen's party.
Thus, the French National Assembly has two votes of no confidence on its agenda: one presented by the deputies of the left-wing coalition of the New Popular Front (La France Insoumise, Socialists, Greens and Communists), and the other by the extreme majority.
The opposition had 24 hours to pass a vote of no confidence.
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The essence of the problem that defeated Michel Barnier's government is the bill on social security financing.
Barnier's difficulty in pushing through the 2025 budget in a deeply divided parliament has plunged France into its second political crisis in the last six months.
Since its formation in September, Barnier's minority government has relied on the support of the National Front for its survival.
The budget bill, which sought to rein in France's growing public deficit by raising taxes by 60 billion euros ($63 billion) and cutting spending, could spell the end of this precarious balance.