French politics: What’s going on?

It looks like the French government could collapse this week. From Paris, CGTN’s Ross Cullen explains why.  #france #politics #frenchpolitics #paris

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00:00Well, a very dramatic day in Paris on Monday, with the government using special executive

00:08powers to force the 2025 budget legislation through Parliament. The Prime Minister saying

00:15he was going to use a special constitutional instrument called 49.3, which bypasses MPs

00:22and gets legislation through Parliament. But it does mean you open up the possibility of

00:28no-confidence votes, and the left-wing opposition and the right-wing opposition are furious

00:32with the Prime Minister, and they have already submitted no-confidence motions. If those

00:37votes go ahead by Wednesday, and if the government lose, which looks likely, then Michel Barnier

00:44will become a very short-serving Prime Minister. He will offer his resignation to the President,

00:49to President Macron, and the government will fall.