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French government collapses as MPs vote to oust prime minister
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqgnzw759t
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqgnzw759t?post=asset%3Ab321985d-80bb-4119-bbe9-f69afa61c629#post
As Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet announced the result of Bayrou's defeat, MPs applauded loudly and the outgoing prime minister sat stony-faced. "The National Assembly has not approved [the PM's] general policy statement," she said, adding that under the constitution "the prime minister has to submit the resignation of the government to the president of the republic".
Bayrou walked out of parliament and he was then driven the short distance to the prime minister's Paris residence at the Hôtel Matignon, followed by TV cameras perched on the back of motorbikes. A familiar scene in French politics, just like Bayrou's trip across Paris to the Élysée Palace where he'll hand in that resignation to Emmanuel Macron.
In his final words to MPs before the vote, Bayrou insisted the past nine months spent as prime minister had been a period of "profound happiness" because, despite everything, his government had worked with great solidarity and friendship without "a single crisis and a single tension".
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