{"id":434702,"date":"2025-09-02T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/09\/02\/francia-lestrema-destra-conferma-la-sfiducia-a-bayrou-il-governo-non-ha-i-numeri\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:40:10","slug":"france-far-right-confirms-no-confidence-in-bayrou-government-fails-to-secure-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/02\/france-far-right-confirms-no-confidence-in-bayrou-government-fails-to-secure-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Far-right confirms no confidence in Bayrou, government fails to secure majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Game over: Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou’s<\/strong> days are numbered. The mathematical confirmation came in the last few hours, during the consultations with political parties<\/strong> initiated by the transalpine premier to test the ground in view of the confidence vote<\/strong> he himself called for next week in an attempt to push through his controversial 2026 budget plan<\/strong>. Not only will the opposition parties<\/strong> refuse to support him, but also parts of his government coalition<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The last hopes of French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou<\/strong> to stay at the head of the government were dashed this afternoon (2 September). When, a few days ago, he announced<\/a> he wanted to submit to a vote of confidence<\/strong> on 8 September, he was probably convinced he could pull a rabbit out of his hat and withstand the attacks from opposition parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 But the Palais Matignon occupant did not even have to reach the end of the round of consultations<\/strong> with the parliamentary forces (which will last until Thursday) to realise that his premier ministre experience will end there<\/strong>, not even nine months after receiving the mandate<\/a> from President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>. On Monday, barring a resounding turnaround, the most fragmented<\/a> Assembl\u00e9e Nationale <\/em>of modern French history will dethrone the premier, by rejecting him over the unpopular 2026<\/strong> budget<\/strong> with which he sought to save the Treasury nearly 44 billion<\/strong> euros.<\/p>\n

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French president Emmanuel Macron (photo: Frederic Sierakowski via Imagoeconomica)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Bayrou had to find a way to shore up the French public accounts<\/strong>: the public debt is hovering around 114 percent of GDP, and the deficit has exceeded 6 percent, twice the threshold allowed by European constraints (the debt ceiling is 60 percent of GDP). The prime minister pointed the finger at the national pension system<\/strong>, a 400 billion a year black hole on which he was unable to find common ground with the opposition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The opposition parties – from the extreme right of the Rassemblement National <\/em>(RN) to the radical left of La France Insoumise<\/em> (LFI) via the Parti Socialiste<\/em> (PS) – have announced that they will not support him <\/strong>next Monday. The mathematical certainty emerged after the National Rally (RN)<\/strong>, the largest parliamentary group with 123 of the 577 seats, rebuffed the head of government<\/strong>. Several left-wing parties did not even participate in the consultations. <\/p>\n

After an hour of talks with Bayrou, the leader of the Rassemblement<\/em> group in the House, Marine Le Pen<\/strong>, <\/strong>called for an “extremely rapid disbandment”<\/strong> of the Parliament<\/strong>. Her prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Jordan Bardella<\/strong> confirmed that “today’s meeting will not change the position” of the party, which he has led since 2022 and which has long been leading in the polls: “The sooner we go back to the polls, the sooner France will have a budget,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The head of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, at the French National Assembly (photo via Imagoeconomica)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The latest development, instead, is that the same hastily cobbled-together centrist coalition Macron formed at the end of last year<\/a> quickly unraveled. The leader of Mouvement D\u00e9mocrate<\/em> (MoDem) will lack the support of some neo-Gaullist R\u00e9publicains<\/em> (LR). There will be defections even in the Presidential platform Renaissance<\/em><\/strong> – the electoral alliance that includes La R\u00e9publique en Marche<\/em> (LREM), Horizons,<\/em> and MoDem – as well as among the independents<\/strong> of the Libert\u00e9s, Ind\u00e9pendants Outre-Mer et Territoires<\/em> (LIOT) group, which supports the minority executive. <\/p>\n

There seems to be no peace for France, once renowned for its political-institutional stability<\/strong> (enshrined in the 1958 Constitution that gave birth to the Cinqui\u00e8me R\u00e9publique<\/em>), but today shaken by the most profound crisis in decades<\/strong>. Since losing last year’s European elections and calling early elections, the occupant of the Elys\u00e9e Palace has seen three premiers burn out in one year<\/strong>. At the same time, his personal approval ratings have plummeted. <\/p>\n

This time, Bayrou will not succeed in repeating
\nJanuary’s outcome<\/a>, when he survived a censure motion<\/strong> thanks to the votes of the ultra-right and socialists. Once the government falls, Macron will have three options. Appoint yet another prime minister<\/strong>, who is unlikely to receive the confidence of the hemicycle. Dissolve parliament, and call the French to the polls<\/strong>, risking finding an even more fragmented Assembl\u00e9e<\/em> on his hands. Or resign<\/strong>. So far, however, Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident<\/em> has categorically ruled out the latter option.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Game over for the french premier, who faces a no-confidence vote in parliament next week. The centrist leader failed to convince the oppositions to back him, starting with the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":434695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26261,26260,30015,27768,26583,26584],"class_list":["post-434702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-emmanuel-macron-en","tag-francois-bayrou-en","tag-jordan-bardella-en","tag-marine-le-pen-en-2","tag-rassemblement-national-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434703,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434702\/revisions\/434703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}