nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5664f836a3220107 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250906s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5664f836a3220107 doi eng 342 23 Capoccia, Giovanni Author aut Déjà Vu - France Sets the Clock Back to 2024 Capoccia, Giovanni Verfassungsblog 2025-09-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier At the resumption of political activity after the summer, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou unexpectedly announced that he would use his constitutional prerogative to ask for a parliamentary vote of confidence on September 8. The main decision now facing the French president – who has repeatedly declared that he will not leave office early – is whether to attempt to construct a new governing formula within the current parliament or to call new elections just fourteen months after the last dissolution. Neither option is attractive, and both would effectively reset French politics to 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0 French Constitution French Elections Macron motion of no confidence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/deja-vu/ raw object