Nearly Nine in Ten Expect French Government to Fall This Year, Majority Want Macron to Resign

Nearly nine in ten French voters believe the recently installed government will collapse this year, while a majority said they want President Emmanuel Macron to resign.

Less than a month after being placed in the Hôtel Matignon, the French people already expect François Bayrou’s government to fall. According to an Odoxa-Backbone poll for Le Figaro, 86 per cent believe President Macron will have to appoint another prime minister this year.

Bayrou, a longtime neo-liberal ally of Macron’s, was tapped in December to replace Michel Barnier after the National Assembly collapsed his government as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) joined forces with the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) for a no-confidence vote, marking the first time in over six decades that a prime minister was ousted by

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