Michel Barnier has resigned (Image: GETTY)
submitted his resignation as ‘s Prime Minister on Thursday, hours after .
Mr Barnier headed to the Elysee Palace, the official residence of in Paris, on the morning of December 5, and held an hour-long meeting with the French President.
The Elysee later issued a statement, informing the public Mr Barnier would remain on in a caretaker capacity until a new Prime Minister is appointed.
Members of the National Assembly on both the far-left and far-right ends of the political spectrum joined forces to back a no-confidence motion that had been submitted on Monday.
The National Assembly approved the no confident motion by 331 votes, a crushing defeat for Mr Barnier as a minimum of 288 votes were needed.
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Mr Barnier has now become the first Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote since 1962.
And he now holds the record of the shortest-serving French Prime Minister, having been appointed only on September 5.
The move that led to the collapse of the short-lived Barnier government came after the former EU’s chief negotiator on pushed through the French parliament’s lower house a social security budget using special powers, which didn’t require a final vote from the MPs.
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