{"id":90940,"date":"2025-09-15T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90940"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:37:33","slug":"another-prime-minister-gone-in-france-how-a-budget-deficit-became-a-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/another-prime-minister-gone-in-france-how-a-budget-deficit-became-a-political-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Another prime minister gone in France: How a budget deficit became a political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k16jlzT5ijZa33DQAl6\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nThis week saw another prime minister gone in France. Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou submitted his resignation on Tuesday after losing a confidence vote in parliament. He had gambled on a budget demanding over \u20ac40 billion in savings. The plan would have frozen welfare benefits, cut civil-service jobs and scrapped two public holidays. President Emmanuel Macron then named S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, a longtime ally, as France&#8217;s new prime minister to pick up the mantle of trying to pass a budget through a divided parliament. So where does the country&#8217;s economy stand now? Charles Pellegrin discusses this and more with Alexandra Roulet, associate professor of economics at INSEAD. <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw another prime minister gone in France. Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou submitted his resignation on Tuesday after losing a confidence vote in parliament. He had gambled on a budget demanding over \u20ac40 billion in savings. The plan would have frozen welfare benefits, cut civil-service jobs and scrapped two public holidays. President Emmanuel Macron then named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[7403,403,2539,3941],"class_list":["post-90940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-budget-deficit","tag-france","tag-political-crisis","tag-prime-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90942,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90940\/revisions\/90942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}