Faced with an impossible budget and a possible fall of the government, France has its “back to the wall”

Will Michel Barnier's government be overthrown, less than a hundred days after its laborious formation? “In Paris, everyone is talking about it as a possible scenario,” reports the Swiss newspaper Blick. This could be the case as early as next week, if the executive decides to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the Social Security financing bill adopted without a vote. If the National Rally (RN) joins the deputies of the New Popular Front, decided to vote for a motion of censure, the executive will fall.

The problem, however, would be more serious than a simple question of political personnel, underlines the Swiss media. “It is in fact France which has its back to the wall.”

Tuesday November 26, on TF1, the Prime Minister warned against “severe turbulence” which await France in such a case, evoking the reaction of the financial markets in the absence of adoption of a budget for 2025.

“Humiliation in the markets”

And indeed, title Politico in Brussels, “plunged into a growing budgetary mess, France is heading towards humiliation on the financial markets”. According to the European site, it is only a matter of time before investors believe that France pr