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French government collapsed after no-confidence vote. What happens now?

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A no-confidence vote in the French Parliament on Wednesday triggered the collapse of the government, plunging the country into political chaos and stoking anxiety about the euro zone’s second-biggest economy.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s administration becomes the shortest-serving government in the modern French republic and the first in six decades to be toppled by a no-confidence vote. Although the motion was put forward by a left-wing alliance, the swing votes of Marine Le Pen and her far-right lawmakers, wielding unprecedented influence, were key to its passage. The measured was adopted with 331 votes, more than the required majority.

The trouble is, there’s no obvious cast of characters who could form a stable government. New legislative elections that might alter the political dynamics can’t happen before summer. And without a government in place, France couldn’t address the gaping hole in its public finances or resolve uncertainty that has the potential to spook markets and weigh on other euro-zone economies.

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