{"id":132664,"date":"2024-12-03T01:48:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132664"},"modified":"2024-12-03T01:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:48:49","slug":"french-pm-faces-no-confidence-vote-after-forcing-through-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132664","title":{"rendered":"French PM faces no confidence vote after forcing through budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 ejjhCR\">\n<div data-testid=\"hero-image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/9b6c\/live\/6af4aef0-b0be-11ef-a2ca-e99d0c9a24e3.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9b6c\/live\/6af4aef0-b0be-11ef-a2ca-e99d0c9a24e3.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/9b6c\/live\/6af4aef0-b0be-11ef-a2ca-e99d0c9a24e3.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/9b6c\/live\/6af4aef0-b0be-11ef-a2ca-e99d0c9a24e3.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/9b6c\/live\/6af4aef0-b0be-11ef-a2ca-e99d0c9a24e3.jpg.webp 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government is unlikely to survive the vote, which was triggered this afternoon by the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) opposition party and Marine Le Pen&#8217;s far-right National Rally (RN).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is likely to take place on Wednesday. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Despite last-minute concessions, Barnier clearly did not think he would be able to get his budget bill over the line.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c724nnn29keo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Popular Front, an alliance of several left-wing parties, came out top<!-- --><\/a> against Macron&#8217;s supporters and the far right following early elections in July. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The alliance was left furious by <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8rd52zl018o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Macron&#8217;s decision to veer to the centre right by picking Barnier as his new prime minister<!-- --><\/a>, and promised to vote against the government.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">This has meant that Barnier has until now had to rely on the RN for his government&#8217;s survival.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The budget bill sought to rein in France&#8217;s spiralling deficit through \u20ac60bn (\u00a349bn) in tax rises and spending cuts.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Because he lacked a majority, Barnier was forced to make concessions to critics. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">These included<!-- --><b id=\"\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kVRnKf\"> <!-- --><\/b>scrapping a previously planned hike in electricity tax, as well as plans for a less generous prescription drug reimbursement policy from next year.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But the new version of the social security budget remained unacceptable to the opposition.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He used article 49.3 of the French constitution, which allows the text of a bill to be passed without a vote, to push through his 2025 budget after the RN joined the left in opposing it.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think French people will forgive us for choosing party interests over the future of the country,&#8221; Barnier told MPs on Tuesday as he explained the reasons for his decision. &#8220;Now, everybody will need to assume their own responsibility as I have assumed mine.&#8221; <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/9a2b\/live\/4abd3150-b0ca-11ef-b2d5-1f470ee03eb2.jpg.webp\" alt=\"EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock Marine Le Pen, who has blonde bob and kohl-rimmed eyes, is surrounded by cameras as she speaks to journalists after the French National Assembly debate\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><span class=\"sc-a34861b-2 fxQYxK\">EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">Marine Le Pen&#8217;s far-right National Rally backed a no-confidence motion<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Marine Le Pen explained the RN position prior to the motion being tabled.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;Barnier didn&#8217;t listen to the 11 million voters of the RN&#8230; He said everyone should assume their own responsibility, and that&#8217;s what we will do,&#8221; she said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Barnier has warned of the financial and political effects of unseating him, but Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI, said on Monday that &#8220;there will not be chaos once Mr Barnier and his government have gone&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;We are now experiencing political chaos as a result of both Mr Barnier&#8217;s government and Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s presidency.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Barnier was invited to form a government by President Emmanuel Macron in September.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">RN lawmakers and the left combined have enough votes to topple Barnier.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">If Barnier doesn&#8217;t survive Wednesday&#8217;s vote, he will remain in place as a caretaker prime minister until Macron announces a new government.  <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">That could be a new majority government &#8211; unlikely given the splintering of the French parliament &#8211; or a technocratic government, to steer the country until new elections can be held next summer.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The process could take weeks, as it did after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament in summer.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Several parties are also clamouring for new presidential elections. 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