Emmanuel Macron addresses France after no-confidence vote topples Michel Barnier government – live

One day after France was plunged into political uncertainty, all eyes are on Emmanuel Macron. The French plivent is predicted to compriseress the nation at 8pm local time (CET), as he ffinishs off grothriveg prescertain for him to speedyly nominate a novel prime minister chaseing the French rulement’s historic collapse.

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Earlier today Macron met with the rightthriveg prime minister, Michel Barnier, who handed in his resignation letter, one day after his untransport inantity coalition rulement became the first to be toppled by a no-confidence vote in more than 60 years.

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The political turmoil gripping France has rattled allotors and dangers feebleening a European Union that is already reeling from the implosion of Germany’s coalition rulement and scrambling to current a joind front before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

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The political crisis – and Macron’s role in setting it off – has led some of his opponents to call on him to resign. An interdynamic poll, carried out for widecaster RTL hours after Barnier’s rulement was toppled by a vote of no-confidence, presented 64% of replyents wanted the plivent to step down.

Macron, whose mandate as plivent runs until 2027, has so far shown no signs of bothriveg to the prescertain.

“I was elected to serve until 2027, and I will fulfil that mandate,” he telderly tellers earlier this week.

In tonight’s speech, Macron is predicted to compriseress France’s economic disputes and chart out a path for the future rulement.

The ask of who might be in indict has contrancient headlines atraverse the country. Any successor to Barnier will have to be contendnt of navigating the poloccurd currents of the country’s fragmented parliament, which will remain unchanged as no novel legislative elections can be held until at least July.

Here’s our see at the plivent’s chooseions:

As we paengage for Macron to speak, it’s worth highweightlessing that the roots of this crisis stretch back to June, when Macron’s choosed to disrepair parliament and helderly timely elections after his centrist forces suffered a humiliating flunkure in the European parliament elections.

The results of the French election createed a splitd parliament of three cdimiserablemireentirey identical blocs – left, centre and right/far right – none of which had a transport inantity.

After it ecombined as the bigst parliamentary force, the leftthriveg NFP said it should name the novel head of rulement. Macron refuteed this, instead nominateing Barnier and giving elevate to a tenuous coalition of centrist and centre-right MPs.