French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who was ousted last night by the Assemblée Nationale, is at the Elysée to present his resignation to the head of state, Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic, who returned last night from a 3-day state visit to Saudi Arabia, will address the French on TV tonight, at 8 p.m. Barnier's successor should be named in the next few hours.
Mr Brexit lasted only three months: yesterday, as widely anticipated, he fell under the blows of the left-wing and far-right opposition, who unanimously voted no confidence. An announced result that plunges France into crisis and financial chaos, and once again puts President Emmanuel Macron - whose resignation is being called for by both France Insoumise and Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National - in a dead end.
Le Pen, while confirming that Macron "must resign", anticipated that she will let the new prime minister work on a financial maneuver. Mathilde Panot, leader of the deputies of La France Insoumise, was resolute: "Macron should go, we are ready to come to power with a program that breaks with the past". The head of the Elysée, who on Tuesday had accused Le Pen of "unbearable cynicism" for the alliance with the left in order to sink the government, landed in Paris while Barnier was getting emotional at the end of his last speech to the deputies . To the parties that wanted to bring him down, the prime minister sent a heavy message: "The gravity of the economic situation and the truth will impose themselves on any new government".
This is the second time in the Fifth Republic that an executive has been ousted by an alliance of oppositions, so united in the pincer maneuver that they did not lose a single vote along the way (331 were in favor of the left's motion of censure, 289 would have been enough). To find the precedent, we have to go back 62 years, to 1962, when Georges Pompidou, the future President of the Republic, was forced to resign.
A scenario of further uncertainty is thus opening up in France, already physiologically without an absolute majority since Emmanuel Macron dissolved Parliament on June 9, the evening of the defeat in the European elections. A political and economic uncertainty that is also spreading to Europe, already struggling with a weakened Germany.
(Online Union)