{"id":403664,"date":"2025-09-06T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403664\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:58:12","slug":"he-has-to-go-france-opposition-submits-motion-to-impeach-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403664\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He has to go’: France opposition submits motion to impeach Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean-Luc Melenchon, a leader of the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, said the opposition has filed a motion in Parliament calling for the impeachment of President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has to go,\u201d Melenchon told a news conference in the northern city of Lille on Saturday.<\/p>\n

On the situation in Gaza, Melenchon said if his party members were in power, the French Navy would have been escorting the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n

He also said the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou would fall in a confidence vote on Monday, calling this possibility \u201ca victory of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n

France is facing mounting political tensions as Bayrou prepares for the crucial confidence vote in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

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Bayrou, who unveiled a 2026 budget framework in July, is seeking support for a plan to save nearly \u20ac44 billion ($51 billion) as part of efforts to reduce France\u2019s soaring public debt, now at 113 percent of its GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jean-Luc Melenchon, a leader of the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, said the opposition has filed a motion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-403664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115159597289806902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}