French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's three-month-old minority government has been toppled in a no-confidence motion.
French opposition MPs voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which hurled the country further into political uncertainty. For the first time in over sixty years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the incumbent government, approving a no-confidence motion that had been proposed by the hard left but which crucially was backed by the far-right headed by Marine Le Pen.
The MPs punished Barnier for opting to use special constitutional powers to ram part of an unpopular budget, which sought 60 billion euro in savings in an effort to shrink the deficit, through parliament without a final vote. National Rally chief Marine Le Pen had said collapsing the government was "the only way the constitution gives us to protect the French from a dangerous, unfair and punitive budget".
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