# RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194 Date: 2025 ## The fact On 8 September 2025 Prime Minister [François Bayrou](/people/francois-bayrou) lost a confidence vote in the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly), 364 against and 194 for. The 123 National Rally deputies voted against, with UDR. [Jordan Bardella](/people/jordan-bardella), as RN president, had already said on 2 September after a Matignon meeting that the RN would not change its mind, and earlier that the RN would never vote for a government whose decisions were making the French suffer. ## Context He was RN president, not a member of the National Assembly. [Marine Le Pen](/people/marine-le-pen) led the RN group in the hemicycle. Sharing the no with LFI, Socialists, Greens, and Communists is neighbourhood, not a reason to drop the date. 8 September 2025 confidence vote; 2 September Matignon meeting neighbourhood. Stored as one 8 September 2025 Fact. Keep RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194 on 2025-09-08 separate from neighbouring 5 November 2022 congress, 9 June 2024 European list, 7 July 2024 legislative second round, and 8 September 2025 confidence vote. The RN president can bind the party, head a European list, designate a Matignon candidate, and instruct a parliamentary group. He does not sit as the Interior ministry that publishes results, as the Assemblée that records a confidence vote, as a judge in the European-assistants case, or as the president who dissolves the Assembly. A 31.37 percent list score is not authorship of every later government. Sharing a ticket with Marine Le Pen is not a reason to drop 5 November 2022. ## Evidence and sources Reuters carries the official instrument or communique. The Guardian records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned RN-mainstreaming driver: a completed use of the post-2024 parliamentary bloc to help fell a minority government while still bidding for Matignon. ## What is established and what is not Established: Bayrou lost 364–194 on 8 September 2025. The 123 RN deputies voted no. Bardella had publicly bound the party against the motion. Not established: A unique later cabinet integer as size, or that he alone authored every opposition no. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Sharing the no with the left is not a reason to drop 8 September 2025.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194, not a later speech about RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194 on 2025-09-08 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average RN bloc votes against Bayrou confidence motion; government falls 364–194 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He bound the RN as party president against the confidence motion. Sharing the no with the left is not a reason to drop 8 September 2025. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Jordan Bardella: https://factrail.ai/people/jordan-bardella ## Drivers - Bardella RN mainstreaming: https://factrail.ai/drivers/bardella-rn-mainstreaming ## Sources - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/francois-bayrou-ousted-as-french-pm-after-losing-confidence-vote - https://www.reuters.com/world/reactions-french-prime-minister-defeated-confidence-vote-2025-09-08/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-bardella-bayrou-confidence-2025