French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a tricky political situation
as he scrambles to find a new prime minister to
lead France's unruly parliament after rejecting calls to quit.
Macron promised to take action. We can't allow ourselves
to be divided or to do nothing. That's why
I will name a prime minister in the coming days
. Right now, Macron is in full damage control
. His last Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in
a no confidence vote over a controversial 2025 budget bill
frustrated by Barnier's bail tightening measures. Lawmakers pushed him
out. Macron now needs to figure out how to
pass the budget bill that caused a crisis in the
first place and name a new prime minister who will
last Macron's best bet appears to lie with the socialist
party. Ironically, the socialists were part of the
push to oust Barnier, but they've since signaled they
might be willing to support another government. If Macron
can win their backing, it could give his new
Prime Minister a buffer to fend off no confidence threats
from both Marine Le Pen's Far right. National rally
and the hard left France unbowed who sparked France's festering
political crisis in June by calling a snap election that
delivered a hung parliament was defiant in his address to
the nation. I will never take the blame for
the lack of responsibility of others. And notably lawmakers
who chose knowingly to bring down the budget and the
government of France a few days before Christmas, he
dismissed their actions as a anti republican front aimed at
creating chaos. Notre Dame reopening was supposed to be
his triumph. Instead, he's fighting fires within his 00:01:53.138 --> government.