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French President Emmanuel Macron Facing another political crisis and will be forced to choose a new prime minister for the fourth time in less than 12 months after Monday’s vote of distrust.
Prime Minister François Bayrou From France Treasury bonds.
Macron Appointed as Belu Three other prime ministers left their highest positions in the year, after a large number of resignations last December.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou held an award ceremony at the Elysee Palace for those who restored Paris in France on April 15, 2025. (Pierre Suu/Getty Images)
Macron’s support on the world stage
The French president is expected to appoint another prime minister – a fifth place in less than two years.
France is from Europe The second largest economybut according to Bayrou, it is facing an economic crisis.
But the centrist leader, after announcing plans to reduce the fiscal deficit to 4.6% of GDP next year, finds himself facing an increasing number of opposition, through a series of cuts, tax rate hikes and disbanding two public holidays to secure $51 billion in savings.
Various Report On Monday, France’s public debt equals 114% of its GDP by the end of the first quarter of 2025.
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose, then met on December 7, 2024 at the Palace of President Elisi in Paris. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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But a vote without confidence can show that the impasse within the French government increased while Macron played not only in his leadership role in opposing the Russian president Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine and its existence threat to European allies, but global instability and tensions with the United States are increasing – which is also one of its major trading partners.
It is unclear whether Bayrou will resign on Monday night or that Macron will make a public statement on the vote.
