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France’s government collapses in spectacular
fashion after Macron’s hand-picked leader
tried to rein in public debt

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 9/9/2025 6:20:59 AM

France’s government was toppled in a vote of no confidence on Monday, forcing President Emmanuel Macron to search for his fourth prime minister in 12 months — and throwing the EU’s second largest economy into chaos. Premier François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him, losing an apparent gamble that lawmakers would back his push for France to slash public spending to repay its debts. The 74-year-old centrist was instead voted out, ending his short-lived minority government after being appointed by Macron in December. France, which has the European Union’s most powerful military and only nuclear arsenal,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 9/9/2025 6:39:48 AM (No. 2001185)
I don't like to see failure on this scale, however.... Macron has been an incompetent embarrassment for a long time and the French government opened their gates to the barbarians along with the other elite Euros. Rotsa ruck people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: privateer 9/9/2025 6:49:33 AM (No. 2001191)
The SS Frogistan has been listing for years. Now it appears to begin going down at the head; comme la Titanique. The Fifth Republic seems destined to be a new caliphate...thanks to that Nantes Boy Macaroni.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lala 9/9/2025 7:11:51 AM (No. 2001200)
This is what happens when someone tries to cut off the freebies. Such collapse will happen everywhere, even here eventually. Let’s not kid ourselves that we’re invulnerable. You can’t continue to rack up the national debt forever. But no one wants to be the bad guy and go down in flames like this latest PM.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: skacmar 9/9/2025 7:34:27 AM (No. 2001208)
A new politician wants to actually address deficits and overspending. The other politicians who have been in office forever freak out because they are afraid of accountability and cutting off some government freebies. Instead of addressing the financial issues, they get rid of they discredit and get rid od the new guy. Sound a lot like what Democrats are trying to do with Trump. Glad the US doesn't have a parliamentary system or things would never change here.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Citoyen 9/9/2025 8:54:29 AM (No. 2001246)
FTA: "At the end of the first quarter of 2025, France’s public debt stood at $3.93 trillion, or about 114% of gross domestic product. (The US debt to GDP ratio is about 119%.)" France is broke but the United States is even broker. Credit is due to M. Bayrou and even a bit to Macron for attempting, very tardily, to deal with their country's crushing debt. Bayrou was ousted for proposing a spending freeze, something our feckless Republicans refuse to even consider. Some in the Trump Administration are even proposing that the money raised from the tariffs be given to tax payers rather than used to pay down, just slightly, our own obscene debt. Insanity reigns on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 9/9/2025 9:18:58 AM (No. 2001254)
Reining in public debt would seem to be a good thing. But, not popular.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 9/9/2025 9:51:56 AM (No. 2001267)
I volunteer to save France from herself. First, I will kick out all the Muslims. Second, I will kick out all the French.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 9/9/2025 9:55:24 AM (No. 2001271)
Who's next? Japan? America the Beautiful?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zigrid 9/9/2025 9:58:21 AM (No. 2001273)
France had strong leaders back when General DeGaul was in charge right after WWII ended....he wasn't perfect but loved his country just as Yeltsin of Russia loved his country and tried to save her from the likes of Putin.....who is killing people every day...just to get his own way about reclaiming the Soviet Union.....he is not going to stop....no matter what europe does....
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Reply 10 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 9/9/2025 10:01:15 AM (No. 2001275)
Is France's population 25 percent muslim now, or is it more? At any rate, the French have lost their country. There's a reason they're called "feckless."
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Reply 11 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/9/2025 10:11:31 AM (No. 2001279)
The doctor looks at the patient, steps back, mutters 'terminal', and quietly walks away without another word. That's the state of France and many other countries. It can't be fixed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 9/9/2025 10:16:01 AM (No. 2001280)
If France will only elect Mohammed, everything will be fine.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Lawsy0 9/9/2025 11:09:40 AM (No. 2001307)
Macron should have sought counsel from his older and wiser (?) wife Brigitte.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/9/2025 1:51:24 PM (No. 2001371)
The Frogs don't have any Debt, they just print more FAKE MONEY! Time for the populace to resurrect the Guillotines, ALL OF THEM!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 9/9/2025 5:13:54 PM (No. 2001448)
It appears that Marine Le Pen may be the eventual Prime Minister, after the left's "cordon sanitaire" fails....basically the French version of the "Blue Wall". Lawfare against any "extreme right" party, like Rally Nationale, Le Pen's party, which is against massive immigration by third world folks overwhelming French lives.
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