Politico: They played and lost Macron and Bayrou with Lepen – throws the government even though he stays out of the House

Marin Lepen and her party, a national alarm in the polls, seem ready to play a decisive role in removing François Bairou in a censure vote on September 8. They are irrevocable in their desire to take advantage of the deepening of the political crisis to push for parliamentary elections and the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron. Trying to implement a particularly unprotected fiscal cut of 43.8 billion euros, Bayrou and Macron have essentially bet that Lepen – who led the largest opposition party to the National Assembly – would consent when they announced the vote. There was some logic in this bet. As Lepen is forbidden to nominate a condemnation of embezzlement, which will be examined just next year, why risk her parliamentary seat causing possible elections? Wouldn’t it be preferable to let the macron camp take on the political cost of painful cuts? Lepen, however, had a different view. Shortly after the announcement for […]
Source: News Beast

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