The motion of censure approved against Michel Barnier’s government, after three months of management since the general elections called by Emmanuel Macron, has opened a deep political crisis in France. It has been described by some analysts as an “institutional crisis” of the architecture of the Fifth French Republic.
The President of the Republic made a monumental mistake by dissolving the French Parliament as an alleged response to a negative result in the European Parliament elections last June. The immediate call for general elections could not be understood by the electorate and the natural consequence was a fragmentation of the General Assembly into three political blocks incapable until now of forming a majority government. The ephemeral Barnier expresses the unmitigated defeat of Macron and the opening of a period of uncertainty, inevitable until a hypothetical general election no earlier than June 2025 due to constitutional prescription.
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