It looks like the French government could collapse this week. From Paris, CGTN’s Ross Cullen explains why.
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00:00Well, a very dramatic day in Paris on Monday, with the government using special executive
00:08powers to force the 2025 budget legislation through Parliament. The Prime Minister saying
00:15he was going to use a special constitutional instrument called 49.3, which bypasses MPs
00:22and gets legislation through Parliament. But it does mean you open up the possibility of
00:28no-confidence votes, and the left-wing opposition and the right-wing opposition are furious
00:32with the Prime Minister, and they have already submitted no-confidence motions. If those
00:37votes go ahead by Wednesday, and if the government lose, which looks likely, then Michel Barnier
00:44will become a very short-serving Prime Minister. He will offer his resignation to the President,
00:49to President Macron, and the government will fall.