Tomorrow afternoon in the French parliament, a no confidence vote is scheduled on the current prime minister, Francois Bayrou.
Bayrou is the 4th prime minister to serve under Pres. Macron in his 8 years in office. The cause of the current crisis is the national government budget, where cuts have been proposed, including two national holidays.
From Sky News,
France on brink of economic and political crisis as PM looks set to lose confidence vote.
As Marcon continues to stumble along with a minority in the national parliament, his options are narrowing,
Mr. Macron will be faced with only difficult choices; call new elections to try to re-establish a majority, appoint yet another new prime minister in the hope they can succeed where the previous four have failed, or even stand down himself, something he has repeatedly ruled out despite growing calls for him to go.
New elections could improve the position of the “far-right” National Rally party of Marine Le Pen. As it happens,
The Socialist Party is expected to join forces with its natural enemies in the far-right National Rally to oppose the prime minister.
In the last election, Macron’s centrist party lost 86 seats with the socialists gaining 49 and the National Rally gaining 53 seats
Recent opinion polls show National Rally leading the socialists, but no party holds majority support.
