Motion of no confidence

On the night of Sunday, December 15, Kyriakos Mitsotakis' government emerged stronger from the three-day debate on the 2025 state budget proposal. The prime minister dominated the parliamentary debate and was able to focus on his policy in support of citizens on middle and lower incomes. Also, the proposal was supported by more voters than those who belong to New Democracy.

The first formal step in holding early elections is expected to be completed later today, with the federal parliament meeting to give Chancellor Olaf Scholz a vote of confidence. Following the withdrawal of the Free Democrats (FDP) from the governing coalition, the government has now lost its majority and, barring the unlikely event, Mr Scholz will lose a vote of confidence today.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Dec. 5 met Emmanuel Macron to submit his resignation after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, with the president urgently seeking ways to halt growing political and financial chaos.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday will seek ways out of France's political crisis, after Michel Barnier became the first prime minister to be ousted by parliament in over six decades.

Only three months into Michel Barney’s term in France, which collapsed on Wednesday when the New Left Front’s impeachment motion was passed.

The Front’s deputies but the National Rally, Marine Le Pen’s party, voted in favour of the motion.

France is in a political and economic whirlwind as debate is underway on motions of no-confidence tabled following the decision by French Prime Minister Michel Barnier to trigger the controversial Article 49.3 of the Constitution to approve the 2025 budget. The procedure, which allows bills to be approved without a parliamentary vote, has provoked strong opposition parties.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Mayor Milan Djuric won a no-confidence vote in the city assembly on Tuesday.

Forty-eight of 75 assembly members in attendance backed Djuric, 25 voted in favour of a motion to relieve him of his duties and one ballot was invalid.

Michel Barnier’s government is one step closer to collapse, after the tabling of no-confidence motions by both the left and far-right parties, following Michel Barnier’s decision to trigger Article 49.3 of the Constitution for the budget, bypassing the vote in Parliament.

The government of French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is once again vulnerable following a new warning from Marine Le Pen that she could support a no-confidence motion to oust him.

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has threatened to back a no confidence motion that could topple the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a standoff over the budget, saying after talks both sides were entrenched in their positions.