‘Resigned to Failure?’ Bayrou’s ‘doomed gamble’ harks back to Macron's 2024 snap elections fallout

In a dramatic turn that exposed the unraveling of France’s political center, Prime Minister François Bayrou resigned after a humiliating defeat in a no-confidence vote he had called himself. The self-inflicted collapse deepens the crisis engulfing President Emmanuel Macron, now forced to name his seventh prime minister — a sign of growing dysfunction in the Fifth Republic. For deeper insight into the turmoil, Eve Irvine welcomes Olivier Guyottot, Researcher and Professor of Policy at INSEEC Grande École Bordeaux.