France’s parliament – deadlocked for a year and more divided than it has been in decades – is set to vote out yet another prime minister .
Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of the hard-right National Rally party, accused Bayrou of committing political suicide.
The prime minister initiated Monday’s surprise vote himself, seeking to shock politicians into agreeing on a way to tackle the country’s looming debt crisis.
Bayrou said young people will be saddled with years of debt payments for the sake of the comfort of boomers, if France failed to tackle a national debt of 114% of its annual economic output.
However, Bayrou’s gamble – an attempt to end his political career with a heroic act of self-sacrifice – looks almost certain to end in failure later on Monday.
Also, the uproar surrounding this latest vote of confidence inside Paris’s Assemblée Nationale is counterbalanced by a despondent consensus that the almost inevitable removal of 74-year-old François Bayrou, after nine relatively ineffectual months in office, will do nothing to break France’s political stalemate.
News edited by Favour Owonibi