French Government Toppled In Push By Far-Right Party

December 4, 2024 News, Politics

EuroNews reports:

Michel Barnier on Wednesday became the French Fifth Republic’s shortest-serving prime minister after the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) alliance and the far-right National Rally (RN) party joined forces to bring him down during a no-confidence vote. Barnier’s government was toppled with 331 votes backing the motion of censure. A majority of 288 votes was required. The 73-year-old will have lasted just 91 days in office, while his government, made up of centrist and right-wing ministers, served just 74 days.

Concessions made in the eleventh hour to Marine Le Pen [photo], who helms the RN group in the lower chamber, over an increase in electricity taxes and lower drug reimbursements failed to gather her support as Barnier refused to budge on the de-indexation of pensions. Jordan Bardella [photo], the 29-year-old leader of the RN, said Macron is to blame for engineering a so-called “republican front” in this summer’s snap elections that “deprived” him of a majority and therefore of the prime minister job.

Read the full article. In 2021, Bardella was suspended by Facebook after posting support for the banned white supremacist group, Génération Identitaire. Le Pen currently faces up to five years in prison for allegedly siphoning EU funds to pay salaries of her party members.



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