Elections First Successful No Confidence Vote for 62 Years Topples Michel Barnier's Administration in France after 86 Days - Macron's Position Shaky

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France has been plunged into political crisis after a no-confidence vote brought down the government, ending the beleaguered minority coalition of the right-wing prime minister Michel Barnier after only three months.

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Prime Minister Barnier

The no-confidence motion brought by an alliance of left-wing parties was supported by MPs from Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration, far-right, National Rally. A total of 331 lawmakers — a clear majority — voted on Wednesday night to bring down the government.

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Le Pen

Barnier will have to resign as prime minister, having warned before the vote that France would be 'plunged into the unknown'.

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The toppling of the government leaves the president, Emmanuel Macron, facing the worst political crisis of his two terms as president. There is uncertainty over how a 2025 budget can be decided as France faces a growing public deficit, and over whom Macron could appoint as prime minister.

Macron, whose second term as president runs until spring 2027, is not obliged to stand down himself. He has ruled out resigning, calling such a scenario 'political fiction'. But part of the left and far right called for his exit.

Wednesday’s vote was the country’s first successful no-confidence vote since a defeat for Georges Pompidou’s government in 1962, when Charles de Gaulle was president. The lifespan of Barnier’s government became the shortest of any administration of France’s Fifth Republic, which began in 1958.

No new parliament elections can be called before July 2025, narrowing Macron’s options faced with a deeply divided national assembly.

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President Macron

Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator, was appointed by Macron in September after two months of political paralysis this summer.

Barnier’s key task, which proved his downfall, was to vote through a budget for 2025 in which he said he would begin to tackle France’s deficit with €60bn in tax increases and spending cuts. But after weeks of standoff over the budget, Barnier on Monday pushed through a social security financing bill, using article 49.3 of the constitution, which allows a government to force through legislation without a vote in parliament. This sparked a no-confidence motion brought by the left alliance, and another brought by the far right.

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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has formally submitted his resignation after a historic vote of no confidence just three months into his term.

He handed in his notice at Elysée Palace on Thursday morning, fulfilling a constitutional obligation, after the no-confidence motion passed by 331 votes in the National Assembly.

It means Barnier will be the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history, and the first to be ousted via a no-confidence motion since Georges Pompidou’s in 1962.

President Emmanuel Macron, who has the difficult task of appointing a new prime minister while trying to appease both the far right and far left of French politics, is due to address the nation on Thursday.
 
Europe seems to be in weird spot politically to me
 
The relative period of Western peace is artificial and impermanent. It is in the nature of man to be tribal and fractious. We are due for more Western conflicts and societal upheavals.
 
"right-wing prime minister"
"he said he would begin to tackle France’s deficit with €60bn in tax increases"

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Scholz

Germany is heading for early elections after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence, ending his fractious coalition government at a time of strain for the Eurozone’s largest economy.

Scholz’s defeat by 207 to 394 votes on Monday paves the way for the dissolution of parliament ahead of the early elections pencilled in for February 23.

In pre-election polling, the chancellor and his centre-left Social Democrats are behind both the opposition CDU and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Scholz’s widely anticipated defeat sends Germany to the polls amid a darkening economic outlook, the threat of a trade war with the US and political turmoil elsewhere in Europe.

The Bundesbank warned last week that Europe’s largest economy would grow by just 0.1 per cent in 2025.Immigration and the debate over military support for Ukraine are other divisive issues in an election in which the AfD and other populist parties hope to make big gains.
 
I's very shitty in Euro at the moment and the ones in power have only one thing - yell RUSSIA at any problem or at anyone challenging them. it's pathetically desperate and it's obvious for everyone, even them, that it's not going to work for long.

right now, it's the BAN doctrine. guy we don't like? ban. party that will kick our ass? ban. people posting anything against the government? threat of prison because obviously a russian asset.

it's soo pathetic.
 
Globalists are shitting the bed all across Western Countries... Canada too





 
The relative period of Western peace is artificial and impermanent. It is in the nature of man to be tribal and fractious. We are due for more Western conflicts and societal upheavals.

Maybe cutting your own throat economically with unachievable, nebulous and stupid climate goals while letting in hordes of 3rd world immigrants who have zero desire to integrate or respect your country wasn't the best idea.
 



Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer

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says he will resign in the coming days, both as chancellor and party leader, after talks about forming a coalition government collapsed.

The chancellor said his party - the conservative People's Party (ÖVP) - and the Social Democrats had failed to agree on key issues.

The liberal Neos, another party involved in the talks, also pulled out on Friday.

In September the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) won an unprecedented victory in Austria's general election, but the other parties ruled out forming a coalition with the FPÖ's leader Herbert Kickl.

The collapse of the talks could lead to the conservatives negotiating with the far-right, or to a new election taking place, analysts have said.
 
Globalists are shitting the bed all across Western Countries... Canada too







Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to resign within a matter of days amid public outcry within his country over his liberal politics.

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Trudeau may announce as early as Monday that he will resign as the Liberal Party leader, sources familiar with the prime minister's plans told The Globe and Mail.

Although it was uncertain when Trudeau will make his announcement, sources stressed that it would be before a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday.

One person with knowledge of Trudeau's plans told The Globe and Mail that he realizes he needs to make an announcement before he meets with the Liberal caucus to avoid the appearance that he was forced out by the party.

The prime minister came to the conclusion that the party is no longer behind him, and he knows there is no path for him to stay on, sources said.
 
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