With both Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and the Leftist New Popular Front backing Mr Barnier’s exit, he has next to no chance of survival. Voting will take place on Wednesday after ...

Le Pen and leftist lawmakers backed the no-confidence motion after Barnier proposed 60 billion euros—equivalent to $63.1 billion—in spending cuts and tax increases. The budget aimed to narrow ...

That gave Le Pen unprecedented power over French politics, which she used by backing a no-confidence vote that toppled the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier late Wednesday. Speaking in ...

The votes of 331 MPs—mostly from the left and Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN)—were more than enough to block Barnier and oust the prime minister from power. In ...

Barnier maintained composure ahead of the contentious ... defeat for his party in the European elections — where Le Pen’s National Rally won more than double the president’s party.

A majority of lawmakers on Wednesday supported the no-confidence vote proposed by the hard left and backed by the far right headed by Marine Le Pen. Barnier's ejection in record time came after ...

Bayrou, 73, replaces conservative heavyweight Michel Barnier, who was ousted last week after far-right leader Marine Le Pen joined the left in a censure motion over a budget dispute. Bayrou could ...

Marine Le Pen has threatened to topple the French government over what she calls its "bad, unjust and violent" budget. In a "dramatic move", the far-right leader gave Prime Minister Michel Barnier ...

From the outset, Le Pen said her party would oppose any candidate from the left-wing alliance that had garnered the most seats in the July election, though short of a governing majority.

Lawmakers loyal to Barnier and Macron were outnumbered in the National Assembly by a left-wing coalition and a right-wing one led by Marine Le Pen. "The choice we made was to protect the French ...