"The shaky minority administration assembled by Prime Minister Michel Barnier only three months ago began to wobble badly on Monday after he triggered an extraordinary constitutional mechanism to force through an austerity budget."
"For Barnier to survive, the far-right opposition leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally deputies would have to abstain in today's vote on a motion of no-confidence tabled by leftwing parties."
"The austerity budget, which includes deeply unpopular social security reforms, is meant to rein in France's spiraling national deficit, which is dramatically above permitted eurozone levels."
"Macron's centrists were beaten by a leftwing coalition, the NPF, and the president reduced to the status of lame duck."
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