{"id":35371,"date":"2026-01-10T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35371"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:04:12","slug":"french-parties-pile-pressure-on-macrons-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35371","title":{"rendered":"French parties pile pressure on Macron\u2019s govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two French political parties were Friday filing no-confidence motions against President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s government, ramping up pressure on his cabinet after months of deadlock.<br \/>\nNeither the move from the far right nor hard left are expected to garner enough votes to be a serious threat, but they show Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu still faces strong opposition from within the parliament that toppled his two predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>France has been mired in political crisis since Macron in 2024 called snap polls which he hoped would consolidate his majority but instead ended up in a deeply divided lower house.<\/p>\n<p>The no-confidence motions come despite Macron on Thursday saying France would vote against an EU trade deal that has upset French farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties accused Macron of doing too little too late, as the accord is expected to be signed next week.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Bardella, the president of the far-right National Rally (RN), late Thursday said his party would be filing a no-confidence motion in French parliament over Macron &#8220;betraying French farmers&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe accused the president of &#8220;claiming today to oppose&#8221; the deal between the European Union and South American bloc Mercosur, &#8220;after years of negotiations without ever defending French interests&#8221;.<br \/>\nMore than 25 years in the making, the accord would create one of the world&#8217;s biggest free-trade areas and allow EU countries to export more vehicles, machinery, wines and spirits to Latin America.<br \/>\nBut French farmers fear cheaper goods from agricultural giant Brazil and its neighbours will undercut them.<br \/>\nThe hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party on Friday filed its own motion to censure the government over what they said was their country being &#8220;humiliated in Brussels and also in Washington&#8221;.<br \/>\nAfter the US operation to seize president Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela on Saturday, signatories denounced what they said was Macron being &#8220;incapable of condemning the United States&#8217; illegal and illegitimate war against Venezuela&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two French political parties were Friday filing no-confidence motions against President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s government, ramping up pressure on his cabinet after months of deadlock. Neither the move from the far right nor hard left are expected to garner enough votes to be a serious threat, but they show Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu still faces strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}