Sept. 8 (UPI) -- French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday failed a confidence vote held by the National Assembly, which said the leader must now resign.

France is set to lose its third premier in 12 months. Pressure is now mounting on President Emmanuel Macron to pick a new prime minister after Francois Bayrou's resignation.

France's parliament brought down the government on Monday over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone's second-largest economy. Lawmakers voted to oust Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and his minority government with 364 votes against the veteran centrist politician and…

Bayrou had called the confidence vote to try to win parliamentary support for his strategy to lower a deficit that stands at nearly double the European Union's 3 per cent ceiling and to start tackling a debt pile equivalent to 114 per cent of GDP.

The Élysée Palace confirmed that President Emmanuel Macron would name a new prime minister “in the next few days”.

France's government, led by Prime Minister Bayrou, was ousted after a parliamentary vote rejected his proposed austerity measures aimed at curbing the nation's soaring debt.

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister...

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