Emmanuel Macron, a president with limited room for maneuver, after a dissolution and two failed governments

How to break the deadlock? The fall of François Bayrou on Monday, September 8, in the National Assembly, in a poisonous climate that bodes ill for the future, has opened a new political crisis, one year after the dissolution. In front of his television screen, former Prime Minister Michel Barnier witnessed the fall of his successor live and sent him, by SMS, a word of support. "I fear that what is before us is more serious than a commotion," wrote the Savoyard to the mayor of Pau, after listening to his general policy statement, in which the latter predicted "a commotion that is brewing for France" ...

But all eyes are now on Emmanuel Macron. After the two successive failures of Michel Barnier and then François Bayrou, the head of state finds himself without a lightning rod at Matignon, in a moment of vulnerability where major political, budgetary, and social crises are intertwined.

Thirty minutes after the deputies' vote on Monday, the Elysée Palace announced that the head of state would meet the prime minister on Tuesday to "accept the resignation of his government." He will name his successor "in the next few days," the statement ventured. The president's entourage is pleading for speed, while demonstrators celebrated the fall of the Bayrou government on Monday evening in front of town halls in several French cities, at the call of the Block Everything movement, which is inviting the French to express their anger on Wednesday, September 10.

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