Analysis-Stalemate or surrender: France's Macron is left with no good options

FILE PHOTO: France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky following the Coalition of the Willing Summit, at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, France on September 4, 2025. LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS/File photo

PARIS (Reuters) -The challenge French President Emmanuel Macron faces in choosing his fifth prime minister in under two years lays bare the depth of a political crisis that in many ways is of his own making, and one with no clear path out.

Francois Bayrou is set to tender his resignation as prime minister on Tuesday, a day after parliament voted to bring down the government over its plans for taming the budget deficit.