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Sep 08, 2025
Headline: Bayrou ousted as French PM, Macron to appoint successor in ‘next few days’
Sub-headline: After just nine months in office, François Bayrou will have to hand in his resignation. His fall leaves President Emmanuel Macron searching for his seventh prime minister.
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François Bayrou was ousted as prime minister on Monday, September 8, after losing a vote of confidence in the Assemblée Nationale. Bayrou and his government lost the vote by 364 votes to 194, with opposition parties uniting against him. He will submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron early Tuesday, sources close to him told Agence France-Presse. The Elysée Palace said Macron will name a new prime minister “in the next days.”
Bayrou, who was on the job for just nine months, blindsided even his allies by calling a confidence vote to end the lengthy standoff over his austerity budget. He had unveiled his budget plan in July, which sought €44 billion in spending cuts over three years, including reductions in pension and healthcare spending. The proposals had triggered weeks of tense debate in Parliament and strong public criticism.
Bayrou was the sixth prime minister under Macron since the French president was first elected in 2017. Bayrou’s ousting leaves Macron with a new domestic headache at a time when he is leading diplomatic efforts on the Ukraine war.
Before the vote at the Assemblée Nationale, Bayrou defended his decision to call the high-risk confidence vote, telling MPs: “The biggest risk was not to take one, to let things continue without anything changing (…) and have business as usual.”
Describing the debt pile as “life-threatening” for France, Bayrou said his government had put forward a plan so that the country could “in a few years’ time escape the inexorable tide of debt that is submerging it.” “You have the power to overthrow the government,” but not “to erase reality,” said Bayrou.
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