August 26, 2025 3:28 PM
French minister won’t rule out snap election after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote gamble
France could find itself heading for another snap parliamentary election, a government minister suggested on Tuesday, after opposition parties said they would vote to oust Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, coinciding with a decline in French markets. Bayrou jolted the political establishment out of its summer slumber on Monday with his unexpected move to seek a September 8 confidence vote on his debt-cutting plan. The country's main opposition parties were quick to make it clear that they w...