Emmanuel Macron faces another crisis as French president after his Prime Minister François Bayrou called a vote of confidence in his government, which he is almost certain to lose.

Bayrou, who runs a centrist minority government and is a longtime ally of Macron, made the risky choice of having the vote amid his deeply unpopular economic decisions, including budget cuts and debt control measures.

Given that both the right and left-wing blocs of parliament are keen to see the removal of Bayrou, it spells another political headache for Macron. If a second of his governments falls in less than a year, it will leave the French president with few "unenviable choices" and another "political crisis" on his hands, said Laurent Geslin on Euractiv .

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