so a crucial vote though in the French Parliament later that is set to explode the current French government lawmakers voting on no confidence motions from both the left and the far right against prime minister Michelle Bar's government that after he pushed through the French budget for next year on Monday using a little use constitutional process a deep political crisis ahead that appears that the government is less and less likely to avoid well Michelle barer spoke on French television last night let's hear what he had to say I'm still in listening mode and if I have
to remain as prime minister not for myself but to try and continue to serve I tell you again that my door will be open I'm ready to work with all political groups to improve because this budget is not perfect there are still possible discussions on the finance bill and there are many subjects for afterwards for the next six months M Bar there well with me here us on set is chlois Cali he's going to be at the French National Assembly reporting on that for us this afternoon as that debate and vote happened Clovis first of
all I mean it's pretty chaotic isn't it how we've got to this point as it were yeah set to be a very busy day today at the National Assembly animosity for sure why because the French government is almost certain to be toppled the president of the national rally the French farri party Jorden Bal this morning said it again he will back this vote of no confidence of motion of no confidence He he'll join the left wing in trying to get Michelle B out of office uh forc this government to collapse even though it has to
be said this motion of no confidence one has been put forward by the French far right another one by the leftwing block and the leftwing Block in the text actually said they were asking for the government to leave because uh the French prime minister was going too far on immigration uh with this vile Obsession those are the words on immigration and that was a clear sneer at uh the French far right still the French Far Right Said despite those words we will vote the text put forward by the leftwing so today against all I mean
it's very unlikely that um Michelle barer will survive this vote he tried all he could with that interview yesterday and the French President Emanuel macron who's currently in Saudi Arabia also saying that he can't imagine the government collapsing it would be irresponsible on behalf of all MPS to vote at this and it would spark chaos when you talk to the French far right when you talk to the left they say that the chaos was caused by President Macon calling snap elections last summer yeah so assuming it does H happen this afternoon the government Falls I
mean what on Earth happens next that's the question because the last time a government collapsed after a Sim in a similar situation was back in 1962 with a motion of no confidence and at the time it was JH pomu what happens no power vacuum there will be an interim government Michelle B until the French President finds a suitable candidate the next prime minister the rumor is it could be centrus figer FR b or um the defense minister luu those are just a couple of names what we do know is that Emanuel macron has been Consulting
meeting with figures in recent days because he knew this um the government could collapse any moment and uh so we shouldn't be waiting 50 days like last time before getting a new prime minister what's interesting here also again is that the far right really has the government's fate in its hands Marin Len more powerful than ever remember that last time they own this time they've got 124 MPS it's so much more than in previous years a few years ago you would have asked us can the um the national rally get into Power Play This role
of kingmaker we would have all said it's Unthinkable and that's why we looked at this issue with Gail F we did a report for the show reporters that's currently on France 24 on air it's called the national rally at the gates of power here's a clip of it the national rally has tightened its grip in recent years on the Ala maritim their opponents seem nowadays less vocal possibly the sign of a sense of resignation we're filming a report on the national rally what do you think of them nothing you can keep it the far right
stands more than ever at the gates of power in 2017 it had eight MPS at the National Assembly the figure has now jumped to 125 they can also count on the support of a breakaway group from Le Republican Party in the last general election Marin Leen struck an alliance with Eric suti who was then the leader of the mainstream conservative party it led to the implosion of Republic and the move helped Su get reelected MP it brought equal success to one of his rightand men B milir in the Cruz this department in the center of
France is very rural and traditionally a leftwing Bastion Lenoir visits farmers who proudly show him their cattle for the right-wing MP one thing is clear the far left and the green party represent a real threat farmers in the crews are under attack from the green party and so-called environmentalists these people they say we should stop eating meat what they don't realize is that these farmers are the essence of French identity if that goes away well it's all over for our nation it's complicated with the ecologists because we can't accept some things they say I don't
know what their vision is they should come live with us for a week and then maybe they'd stop talking nonsense rural France feels largely misunderstood and forgotten by politicians the MP says he wants to give them a voice and that the alliance with the far right is the only path to Victory Life is becoming worse and worse and nothing changes I believe there's a need for something radically different we need right-wing Unity to offer a real Choice the national rally is not what it used to be those who say they're shocked by our alliance aren't
really rightwing in my mind because the national rally is very respectable nowadays in June's European elections the national rally finished first in all but 15 of the 256 Clos municipalities so that's of course a clip from our uh 13 minute long report that you can find on social media on our website and it's also on a what's interesting here also is that um the people we meet tell us we don't care if the national rally is uh seen as far right nationalist anti-european we just want change we've tried all mainstream parties in the past and
our livelihoods haven't improved we're now in a situation where we're struggling to make ends meat electricity is more expensive food's more expensive everything's more expensive and we're not getting more uh better salaries and that's across French society for the past 10 15 years and therefore we need change those Farmers you saw in the Cruz desperate to make ends meet and they say we're ready to try anything so it's not just about embracing uh far right values or national rally uh Manifesto It's also about saying we want something different we want something radical and that's why
b l MP from the former mainstream Republic also said also said we need to offer a radical Choice something really different would they bring something very different or radically different if they were in place that remains to be seen take a look at what Georgia Malone is doing in Italy she's not uh that radical and she's had to um moderate a lot of her policies and act more mainstream if you will
