If the French Prime Minister François Bairou believed that the Marin Le Pen, The leader of the French far -right would keep distances from a government crisis due to the ban on political posts, a planets.
Le Penn and her party, a national alarm, preceding polls, seem determined to play a decisive role in imminent trust vote on September 8 that François Bairou was unexpectedly requested As a result, Bairo’s position is called into question, according to the report of the Politico.
It is recalled that Marin Le Pen was found guilty of public resources abuse and was sentenced on 31.03.2025 by a France court, to four years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros. At the same time, it was deprived, with immediate effect, the right to be elected for a five -year period, which means that it will not be a candidate in the 2027 presidential election.
The far -right leader Marin Le Pen is exploiting the increasingly intense political instability, calling for early parliamentary elections and pressing for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron. This escalation intensifies uncertainty in the French political scene and sends a clear message: the National Alarm does not intend to remain an observer, but wants to determine the future of the government.
When Macron and Bairou decided to squeeze the French budget of EUR 43.8 billion, Something that was not liked by many, had not imagined that Lepen, who controls the largest opposition party in the National Assembly, would dare to call a vote of confidence last week.
And this thought had some logic as Le Pen is forbidden to run for a post due to condemnation of embezzlement. She will appeal next year, so why should she risk her headquarters in parliament now, potentially causing elections?
But Lepen does not see it at all in fact, as just an hour after the announcement of the confidence vote, she swore that she would mobilize all her powers to overthrow Bairou and accused eight years of macronism of threatening France’s survival.
“Only dismantling will now allow the French people to choose their destiny, that of recovery with the national alarm,” he wrote on the social networking platform X.
This put an end to every guess that there could have been some kind of agreement between Bairo and Lepen.
While many assumed that Bairou could somehow try his limits with Le Pen before announcing the vote, the prime minister had difficulty explaining why he did not actually. He noted – rather not convincing, in an interview on the TF1 channel – that he didn’t do it because opposition leaders were “on vacation”.
But Le Pen responded by saying that she had not stopped working during the summer.
Determined for elections
The left parties They also immediately announced their intention to vote against Bairo.
Bardela and So They have scheduled a meeting with Bairou on Tuesday (02.09.2025), but the messages coming from the National Alarm make the two sides unlikely to reach an agreement.
In the event of a fall in Bairo, Macron faces a few good choices to replace him, though he is rumored to be considering the possibility of hiring The Minister of Armed Forces, Sebastian Lekornou.
The national alarm and other parties calling for new elections say that two successive center -right and center -side politicians failed to end the prolonged political crisis born of Macron’s unfortunate move to call early elections last year.
In a poll of Ifop which took place after Bairo’s speech, 63% of respondents said they were in favor of returning to the polls, with this percentage reaching 86% among national alarm voters. But polls also show that the new elections could lead to yet another hovering parliament. Whether Macron will actually call elections is, of course, unknown. Last year’s surprise vote led to the current political impasse and left deep injuries in his camp.
29 -year -old Zordan Bardella, president of the National Alarm, has repeatedly called Macron to resign despite his mentor legal tests – which would be unlikely to do without Le Pen’s approval. She still has a significant control over the far -right party’s communication strategy, which the party is trying to improve after failing to address the difficult issue of its succession immediately after the verdict.
One theory is that Le Pen has accepted that she will not be able to nominate a president in the near future and weighs Bardela as prime minister if he is nominated as a candidate for the National Alarm for the Elysian fields. But Jakompelli, who is a spokesman for the party, categorically denied it.
“Marin Lepen never gives up”, he said.
If there is a new vote – presidential or parliamentary – Le Pen plans to use all the means available to it to nominate.
After a period of shock that followed the court’s ruling, the far -right leader began consulting various lawyers and legal experts in the spring, according to sources.
“Obviously we are investigating all legal routes so that even in the event of a breakup … Marin Le Pen can be a candidate,” Bardela told the TF1 broadcasting body on Tuesday. “There is a legal way and, although very small, Marin Lepen is fighting for her.”