Chaos! That seems to be the name of the game when it comes to French politics the past few years. Prime Minister François Bayrou has announced a vote of no-confidence scheduled for early September. It’s a coin flip as to whether he will survive politically or not, or if France will once again head to early elections. If they do, it is likely France will have their sixth prime minister in just over five years.
Of course, this political contagion of constantly collapsing congresses is not unique to France. Austria has had a total of seven chancellors in the last decade, and that’s not even including temporary acting chancellors. Currently, Vienna is governed by a rickety three-party centre-right/centre/centre-left coalition.
Germany’s past government – another rickety three-party coalition – did not even survive its term, and for the duration the governing parties bickered to no end. Berlin’s current ruling coalition may fare no better, as it is a “grand coalition” of two centrist parties who do not like each other all that much.
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