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The French government is facing imminent collapse
Embattled President Emmanuel Macron risks paralysis at a time of looming strikes, soaring debt and fractured politics.
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French President Emmanuel Macron would have lost three prime ministers in just over a year if the government is defeated in a parliamentary vote scheduled for Sept 8.
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France is on the brink of a fresh political crisis. In a parliamentary vote scheduled for Sept 8, French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s government is likely to be defeated and forced to resign.
So far, hardly remarkable. After all, stories of French political crises are not exactly unusual. Furthermore, under French constitutional arrangements, it’s President Emmanuel Macron rather than the prime minister who holds most power. And since Mr Macron’s current term of office only expires in 2027, it’s easy to dismiss the approaching French political tremor as just another short-lived tantrum, of interest only to those very few who obsess about France’s politics.
