LIVE – Resignation of the Barnier government after censorship: France in great limbo

If the fall of Prime Minister Michel Barnier was perceived as a “death announced”what about the consequences, while a “period of political, economic and financial uncertainty”questioned the French press and international titles on Thursday morning. “Historical censorship, political crisis”titre Le Figaro of the day. “Politics is confined to categorical negotiations and Lilliputian combinations” while “France is upside down”deplores Vincent Trémolet de Villers in his editorial. “When everything is blurry (…) it is wise to protect the clear lines”according to the deputy editorial director, for whom “we absolutely must not have a Prime Minister coming from the left”.

“What consequences after the fall of Barnier?”titrate the Latest news from Alsace. “And now?”asks theIs Lightning on the front page. Same story Parisianwith a photo of President Emmanuel Macron and Michel Barnier, where we can distinguish the second in the background, echoing the headline “After censorship, the big blur”. And when Liberation have fun with one “Veni, Vidi, Viré”, The Echoes they speak of“alliance of extremes”.

By Patrick Moyon de West Francegovernment censorship by “the voices of the left and the extreme left” associated “to those of the extreme right” marque “the end of the much-vaunted Republican barrier between the two rounds of the legislative elections”. “Partisan calculations and, even more so, the hatred of the President of the Republic, prevailed over all other considerations”he laments. “There is something astonishing in this event yesterday (Wednesday, editor’s note), the political consequences of which we probably do not yet understand”he seems to warn.

“Far from resolving the current crisis, the censorship of Michel Barnier’s government will not restore confidence in politics to the French”writes Béatrice Frère in the columns of the Voice of the North.