France Rocked by Government Collapse as PM Bayrou Ousted, Macron Seeks Fourth Premier
France Rocked by Government Collapse as PM Bayrou Ousted, Macron Seeks Fourth Premier France’s government was toppled in a confidence vote on Monday, plunging Europe’s second-largest economy into fresh political turmoil. Prime Minister François Bayrou was overwhelmingly ousted in a 364-194 vote, forcing President Emmanuel Macron to begin an arduous search for his fourth prime minister in just 12 months. Bayrou’s short-lived minority government, in office for less than nine months, is now constitutionally obliged to submit its resignation to…