France's government is likely to fall this week after far-left and far-right parties said today they would vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a vote on distrust, reported Reuters.
Their move came after Barnier said he would try to push a social security bill through parliament without a vote, as a last-minute concession was not enough to win the support of the far-right “National Assembly”.< /p>
The leader of the “National Assembly“ Marine Le Pen said her party would present its own vote of no confidence, but would vote for any similar one presented by the other parties.
„France has had enough. "Maybe they thought things would get better with Barnier, but they even got worse," she said.
In turn, Mathilde Pano from the far-left party “Rebellious France” stated that “faced with yet another denial of democracy, we will censor the government”. “We are living in political chaos because of the government of Michel Barnier and the presidency of Emmanuel Macron”, she added.
If the deputies of the “National Assembly” vote together with the left to oust Barnier, his government will not survive.
Barnier's efforts to push next year's national budget through a deeply divided parliament threaten to plunge France into its second political crisis in six months, underscoring the instability that has gripped a number of countries across the European Union.
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The French Prime Minister called on the MPs not to support the vote of no confidence.
„We are currently in the moment of truth. "The French will not forgive us if we put the interests of individuals before the future of the country," Barnier said.
The opposition now has 24 hours to table a vote of no confidence. The vote will take place on Wednesday at the earliest. Since 1962 no French government has been overthrown in a similar way, notes Reuters.
Since its establishment in September, Barnier's minority government has relied on the support of the “National Assembly” for your survival. The budget bill, which aims to curb France's growing budget deficit through a €60 billion euro tax increases and spending cuts, could end this unreliable support.