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This episode formed part of a broader wave

of protests sweeping South Asia, making Nepal
the third country in the region in just three
years to be shaken by mass popular unrest,
following in the footsteps of crisis-stricken Sri
Lanka and Bangladesh.

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The French government, too, was not spared
from public discontent. A protest movement
known as “Shut It All Down” emerged, though
not in response to repression, as in Nepal, but
primarily on economic grounds.
The reason behind the no-confidence vote
and parliamentary opposition lay in Bayrou’s
austerity policies, introduced as an attempt to
address the economic crisis that France has
been grappling with for several years,
compounded by the burden of a growing
budget deficit and mounting public debt. Yet
the fundamental cause of the government’s
collapse was not the austerity measures

On the very same day, September 8, the themselves which were, in essence, remedial
parliament passed a vote of no confidence but rather the economic crisis for which
against Prime Minister François Bayrou by Macron bore significant responsibility. His first ELITE’s Seventh Anniversary (2018-2025)
194 votes to 364. It was the first time in the term was marked by the so-called “Macronian”
history of the Fifth Republic that the welfare-state policies, which contributed to the
legislature approved a motion of no confidence crisis, and further complicated matters by
against a sitting prime minister. Bayrou had dissolving parliament when election results
been in office for only nine months, making failed to secure a majority for the ruling party.
him the third head of government to step down The rerun elections left no single political
in France within a single year. This turn of force with a parliamentary majority,
events left President Emmanuel Macron with undermining the government’s performance
the task of appointing a fifth prime minister in and weakening the prime minister’s ability to
just three years. govern effectively.

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