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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 05, 2024, 08:59:42 PM
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Passing the Buck: Macron Refuses Responsibility for Fall of Government, Rejects Calls to Resign
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/05/passing-the-buck-macron-refuses-responsibility-for-fall-of-government-rejects-calls-to-resign/
In a national address following the historic collapse of his government, President Emmanuel Macron attempted to shirk responsibility for the political chaos in Paris and vowed to stay on until the end of his term despite growing calls for his resignation.
Speaking from the Élysée Palace on Thursday evening, President Macron declared that he will “never take responsibility” for the actions of others and that the true culprits of the instability facing France is an “anti-republican” alliance between the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition and Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) after they joined together to censure the government of Michel Barnier over an attempt to pass effective cuts to social security payments to seniors without a vote in the National Assembly.
Macron chastised National Rally MPs for siding with the “extreme left” — ignoring that he sided with the far-left just months ago in the legislative elections — and said that “disorder is the only project which unites them with the extreme left, and this with the complicity of the rest of the New Popular Front.”
“The extreme right and the extreme left have united, in an anti-republican front, and because forces which until yesterday governed France have chosen to ally themselves. I would never take responsibility for others,” Macron said.
France has gone through many republics. A sixth one coming?
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Bye Bye Barnier! French Government Collapses as Le Pen Joins Leftist Bloc to Oust Globalist PM over ‘Technocratic’ Budget
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/04/bye-bye-barnier-french-government-collapses-as-le-pen-joins-leftist-bloc-to-oust-globalist-pm-over-technocratic-budget/
The government of France has fallen for the second time this year, as a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, giving the former Eurocrat the ignominious distinction of being the shortest tenured prime minister in modern French history.
Just 91 days after being installed in the Hôtel Matignon by President Macron, Michel Barnier saw his government collapse on Wednesday, as Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) party joined onto a censure motion to dethrone the government launched by the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) bloc, Le Figaro reports.
While Le Pen and her faction gave Barnier’s government benefit of the doubt support following July’s snap legislative elections, in which the National Assembly was left in a three-way split between the leftist NFP, the National Rally, and neo-liberal Macronists, Prime Minister Barnier’s move on Monday to invoke a constitutional loophole in an attempt to push through effective cuts to social security payments to seniors without a vote in the parliament, saw Le Pen revoke her support from the government and announce her support for the NFP’s no confidence vote.
The left and right turned on Prime Minister Michel Barnier.