Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister “in the next few days”, the Elysée Palace has said, ruling out snap elections to solve France’s political crisis.
The National Assembly voted to collapse the government on Monday, ousting François Bayrou as prime minister by 364 votes to 194 in a confidence motion.
Mr Bayrou is expected to hand in his resignation on Tuesday, leaving Mr Macron scrambling to find the seventh prime minister of his presidency.
After the vote, Mr Macron’s office said he “takes note” of the result and would appoint Mr Bayrou’s replacement “in the next few days”.
The move suggests the French president will ignore growing calls to dissolve parliament and resign, and instead try to appoint a consensus figure to pass a budget in the deeply divided national assembly.
