
France's political crisis deepened on 8 September 2025, as Prime Minister François Bayrou's government collapsed in a crushing confidence vote defeat, exposing President Emmanuel Macron's fragile leadership amid a spiralling debt crisis and parliamentary deadlock.
Bayrou, Macron's fourth premier since 2022, staked his tenure on austerity measures to curb France's ballooning public debt, but lawmakers from the far-left and far-right united to oust him, leaving the eurozone's second-largest economy in turmoil.