Published on November 28, 2024 at 5:50 p.m. / Modified on November 28, 2024 at 5:59 p.m.
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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is likely to lose the confidence of parliament next week, barely three months after taking office. This would be a first in the history of the Fifth Republic. Only Georges Pompidou had been censored in 1962 under Charles de Gaulle, but we were not in the middle of voting on budgetary texts, what’s more in a very tense situation for public finances. And the prime minister had been in office longer. Michel Barnier could well become the shortest prime minister in history.
We have actually known since Wednesday evening that the Social Security budget will be submitted to the Assembly for a vote on Monday. It is the first definitive text in a series of votes which should give France its budgets for 2025. And as it has no chance of passing in the face of opposition from the left and the far right, the Prime Minister will have to resort to article 49.3 of the constitution, allowing it to be validated without a vote.
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