{"id":1290352,"date":"2025-09-08T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-french-government-has-been-dismissed-what-is-the-reason-and-when-will-there-be-a-new-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:03:05","slug":"the-french-government-has-been-dismissed-what-is-the-reason-and-when-will-there-be-a-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-french-government-has-been-dismissed-what-is-the-reason-and-when-will-there-be-a-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"French Government Dismissed: Reasons and Who Will Be the New Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday evening, French lawmakers voted to dismiss Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and his government, triggering a political reshuffle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/08\/europe\/french-prime-minister-confidence-vote-latam-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reported<\/a> this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"262\">\u201cA total of 364 MPs voted against Bayrou and 194 in favor after he called the vote in an attempt to push through an unpopular \u20ac44 billion ($51 billion) austerity plan, which included canceling two public holidays and freezing public spending,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"360\">The 364 votes against Bayrou far exceeded the threshold required for the government to resign.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"562\">Thus, Bayrou will leave his position after nine months in office. According to preliminary data, he is expected to submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, September 9.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"732\">\u201cEven before the vote, the prospect of Bayrou\u2019s downfall sparked calls for the president\u2019s resignation, despite his promise to serve out his term,\u201d journalists noted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"734\" data-end=\"869\">Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called for the dissolution of parliament, though new elections are likely to strengthen her party.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"1079\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">An alternative option for Macron is to appoint a caretaker government while searching for a new prime minister, with the armed forces minister and justice minister considered the main contenders for the post.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, according to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/live-french-government-brink-collapse-pm-bayrou-faces-confidence-vote-2025-09-08\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Macron plans to appoint a new prime minister in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday evening, French lawmakers voted to dismiss Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and his government, triggering a political reshuffle. CNN reported this. \u201cA total of 364 MPs voted against Bayrou and 194 in favor after he called the vote in an attempt to push through an unpopular \u20ac44 billion ($51 billion) austerity plan, which included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1290356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1290352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290436,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290352\/revisions\/1290436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}