Fall of the Bayrou government: what are the opposition proposing to end the crisis?
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Boris Vallaud, president of the Socialist group in the National Assembly, after the vote of confidence lost by Prime Minister François Bayrou, September 8, 2025. Amaury Cornu / Hans Lucas/AFP
The combination of oppositions toppled François Bayrou's government on Monday, September 8, 2025. But no solution seems to be emerging: the renewal of a renegotiated government coalition between the right and the center; cohabitation between the left and the center; or a return to the polls.
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I subscribeFrançois Bayrou was overwhelmingly ousted on Monday, September 8: only 194 MPs expressed confidence, while 364 expressed distrust. But the sum of the opposition does not make a majority. However, France is not Germany, where a majority of parliamentarians can only overthrow a government if it proposes an alternative governing majority. Here, no governmental solution has emerged from this opposition front, which ranges from Mathilde Panot (LFI) to Marine Le Pen (RN), via Olivier Faure (PS) and Aurélien Pradié (LR). However, all political forces are putting forward their own solution to break the impasse.
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