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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Priyanka Shankar

French government falls: What’s next for Macron, Le Pen, France?

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, Junior Minister of Relations with the Parliament Nathalie Delattre and Justice Minister Didier Migaud attend a debate on two motions of no-confidence against the French government [File:Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters]

After less than four months in power, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament over a social security budget dispute.

On Wednesday evening, 331 French legislators from left- and right-wing parties, out of a total of 577 legislators, voted in favour of removing the EU’s former Brexit negotiator and his administration in France’s lower house of parliament.

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