2024–2025 French political crisis

This article is about the 2024–2025 government and political crisis. For the 2023 government crisis which brought down the Borne government, see 2023–2024 French government crisis.

France entered a period of political instability and crisis, unprecedented in the Fifth Republic, after the 2024 French legislative election called by President Emmanuel Macron in June 2024. The election resulted in a hung parliament split into three opposed blocs, each unable to command a majority: the left-wing New Popular Front alliance (180 out of 577 seats), Macron's centrist Ensemble alliance (159 seats), and the far-right National Rally (142 seats). This three-way split, as well as a French political culture averse to coalition government and compromise, resulted in Macron appointing four minority governments, headed by Michel Barnier, François Bayrou, and Sébastien Lecornu respectively. Barnier and Bayrou's governments both collapsed over budgetary disputes, and Lecornu resigned after less than a day, before being reappointed.

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