Motion of censure in France: “We can think that the government interruption will be brief”

The EU Mercosur agreement is no longer at all in line

Will he officially be the most short-lived Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic? Michel Barnier will be fixed tomorrow. After having engaged the responsibility of the government on Monday, December 2 with article 49.3 of the Constitution, to try to pass the Social Security budget without a vote of deputies, Michel Barnier is targeted by two motions of censure. And the presidents of the political groups in the National Assembly decided to debate it on Wednesday afternoon. Both the left and the National Rally announced that they would vote for censure against the government of Michel Barnier. His coalition calls for responsibility so as not to bring down the government and avoid political and budgetary “chaos”. Foreign media are questioning the country’s financial health and the possible consequences of motions of censure on the euro zone. The analysis of Serge Sur, professor emeritus of public law at Panthéon Assas University, member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. Author of France in the worldpublished by La Documentation française.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier leaves after delivering his speech to announce the French government's use of Article 49.3, a special clause in the French Constitution, to pass the budget bill through the National Assembly without a vote legislators, during a debate on the social security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2025 at the National Assembly in Paris, December 2, 2024

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