PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron has lost his second government in less than a year, a measure of how France is caught in a spiral of political dysfunction that is draining its public finances.
A no-confidence motion against the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou won the support of 364 lawmakers in the 577-seat National Assembly, forcing him to tender his resignation.
The fall of Bayrou, a centrist ally of Macron, after less than nine months in office deepens the country’s paralysis at a time when investors are questioning whether France can muster the political will to rein in its ballooning budget deficit .
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