DEVELOPING: France Plunges Into Chaos as Another Prime Minister, François Bayrou, Loses Confidence Vote and Is Ousted by Parliament – Unpopular Macron Reportedly Will NOT Call Snap Election
By Paul Serran of Gateway Pundit on Sep. 8, 2025
Macron’s failing minority government is a train wreck.
Once sold as a promise of hope and change, former Rothschild banker Emmanuel Macron is a shadow of the leader he thought he’d be.
The lame duck French president, distrusted by 80% of voters, will now have to find his seventh Prime Minister, after Édouard Philippe (2017–2020), Jean Castex (2020–2022), Élisabeth Borne (2022–2024), Gabriel Attal (2024), Michel Barnier (2024), and now François Bayrou (2024–present).
It will be his fourth PM in a year and a half and he will have to name a fifth one in less than two years.
This comes as French MPs voted today (8) to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou, deepening the political and economic crises and leaving the Republic without a functioning government.
CNN reported:
“A total of 364 MPs voted against Bayrou and 194 voted for him after he called the vote in a bid to push through an unpopular €44 billion ($51 billion) savings plan that included scrapping two public holidays and freezing government spending.
Bayrou will now be forced to step down after just nine months in office, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Michel Barnier, who lost a no-confidence vote last December. Bayrou’s departure leaves French President Emmanuel Macron with few palatable options.
Investors have been rattled. Yields on French government bonds – or the interest rate demanded by investors – have risen above those of Spanish, Portuguese and Greek bonds, which were once at the heart of the eurozone debt crisis. A possible downgrade of France’s sovereign debt rating review Friday would deliver another blow to its economic standing in Europe.”
Under fire, Macron has ruled out resigning or even calling for snap elections.
“The political instability can be traced back to Macron’s own dramatic decision last year to call a snap election. Piqued by the remarkable results of the far-right National Rally in the European Parliament elections of May 2024, the French president forced a vote in which his party lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a splintered parliament.”
