Bayan News – French media have reported that the government, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, fell on Wednesday, December 4, after a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
According to Agence France-Presse, the radical left-wing party called for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron just hours after the government lost the no-confidence vote.
Reports indicate that although the Barnier government had been in office for only about three months, members of the French Parliament voted against it.
This unprecedented action by the French Parliament, the first of its kind in over six decades, exacerbates political and economic instability in a key European Union country.
The no-confidence vote followed three and a half hours of heated debate in a packed Parliament and concluded with 331 members voting for the government’s dismissal.
The President of the French Parliament announced that due to the no-confidence vote, the Prime Minister must submit his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron, who recently returned from an official trip to Saudi Arabia, is required by the constitution to appoint a new Prime Minister.
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