{"id":133440,"date":"2024-12-05T03:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133440"},"modified":"2024-12-05T03:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:37:14","slug":"french-pm-michel-barniers-government-loses-confidence-vote-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133440","title":{"rendered":"French PM Michel Barnier\u2019s government loses confidence vote | News"},"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<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DEVELOPING STORY, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Barnier\u2019s government is France\u2019s first to be toppled in a no-confidence vote in more than 60 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>French Prime Minister Michel Barnier\u2019s government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/12\/3\/french-no-confidence-motion-is-pm-barniers-government-about-to-fall\">lost a confidence vote<\/a> in the National Assembly, deepening a political crisis and raising questions about the country\u2019s budget for next year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 331 legislators in France\u2019s 577-seat lower house of parliament on Wednesday voted to remove the 73-year-old Barnier\u2019s centrist minority government, plunging the country into political turmoil as it struggles to reduce a soaring budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was called by far-left and hard-right opposition parties after Barnier used special powers to push through budget measures without a parliamentary vote.<\/p>\n<p>Barnier\u2019s government is France\u2019s first to be toppled in a no-confidence vote in more than 60 years. He\u00a0was expected to tender his resignation and that of his government to President Emmanuel Macron shortly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3365441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3365441\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3365441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-04T195835Z_455180366_RC2JIBAM3F6V_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-POLITICS-1733343261.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"French Prime Minister Michel Barnier reacts after the result of the vote on the first motion of no-confidence against the French government, tabled by the alliance of left-wing parties the &quot;Nouveau Front Populaire&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3365441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Prime Minister Michel Barnier reacts after the result of the vote on the first motion of no-confidence against the French government [Sarah Meyssonnier\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaker Yael Braun-Pivet confirmed Barnier would now have to \u201csubmit his resignation\u201d to Macron and declared the session closed.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the vote, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said pressure was now piling up on President Macron even though she was not calling for his resignation, adding Macron alone had the last say on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Mathilde Panot, the head of the parliamentary faction of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, told reporters \u201cwe are now calling on Macron to go\u201d, and urged for \u201cearly presidential elections\u201d to solve a deepening political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The French president will address the nation Thursday evening in a televised speech, the Elysee presidential palace said shortly after the vote concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Barnier, the EU\u2019s former Brexit negotiator was personally appointed by President Emmanuel Macron as the prime minister in September after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/6\/30\/frances-far-right-leads-in-first-round-of-elections-exit-polls-show\">snap election<\/a> in July resulted in a hung parliament.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3365486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3365486\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3365486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AFP__20241204__36PG8P2__v1__HighRes__FrancePoliticsParliamentGovernment-1733344362.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"This photograph shows the result of the no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Michel Barnier's administration displayed on a screen at the National Assembly in Paris on December 4, 2024 after French MPs voted to oust the government after just three months in office in a move which deepens a political crisis in the country. - The French National Assembly was voting two motions brought by the French left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) NFP coalition and the French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN party in a standoff over 2025's austerity budget, which saw French Prime Minister force through a social security financing bill without a vote (article 49.3) on December 2, 2024. \" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3365486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The result of the no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Michel Barnier\u2019s administration displayed on a screen at the National Assembly in Paris [Alain Jocard\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Natacha Butler speaking from Paris said losing the vote was a \u201ccrushing defeat\u201d for Barnier and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were angry with Barnier\u2019s austerity measures in his budget, and that it hit some of the poorest people in France,\u201d she said, adding the country has once again \u201cplunged into another political crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The left and far right punished Barnier for opting to use special constitutional powers to ram part of an unpopular budget, which sought 60 billion euros ($63 billion) in savings in an effort to shrink the deficit, through parliament without a final vote.<\/p>\n<p>France has a public deficit hitting approximately 6.1 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) and Barnier has been eager to bring the deficit down in line with European Union rules, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/excessive-deficit-procedure\/#:~:text=To%20limit%20government%20deficit%20and,to%20a%20member%20state's%20GDP.&amp;text=All%20member%20states%20must%20avoid%20exceeding%20these%20reference%20values.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">require<\/a> countries to have a budget deficit ratio of three percent.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-next\">What next?<\/h2>\n<p>There can be no new parliamentary election before July.<\/p>\n<p>Any new prime minister would face the same challenges as Barnier in getting bills, including the 2025 budget, adopted by a divided parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Macron could alternatively ask Barnier and his ministers to stay on in a caretaker capacity while he takes time to identify a prime minister able to attract sufficient cross-party support to pass legislation.<\/p>\n<p>A caretaker government could either propose emergency legislation to roll over the tax-and-spend provisions in the 2024 budget into next year, or invoke special powers to pass the draft 2025 budget by decree \u2013 though jurists say this is a legal grey area and the political cost would be huge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<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<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/12\/4\/french-pm-michel-barniers-government-loses-confidence-vote\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Barnier\u2019s government is France\u2019s first to be toppled in a no-confidence vote in more than 60 years. 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