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Since a snap general election in the summer resulted in a French national assembly paralysed between a left wing coalition of parties and the far right National Rally Party led by Marine Le Pen, uncertainty has swirled around the country's politics.
Tonight, that uncertainty has deepened.
The assembly of France's parliament brought down the government with 331 out of 574 members of the lower house voting that they had no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
Opposition parties called the vote after Mr.
Barnier used special powers to force through a controversial budget of Social Security reforms.
Ahead of this evening's vote, during a fractious debate, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right National Rally, accused the minority government of making insufficient budget concessions to avoid tonight's crisis.
She said Mr.
Barnier's budget would impose suffering on the French people.
This budget takes French people hostage and most especially the most vulnerable, the poorer pensioners, people with illness, impoverished workers, French people considered too rich to receive aid, but not poor enough to escape a hammering from the taxman.
In response, Laurence Saint Martin, the French budget minister, laid down this challenge to those MPs opposing the budget.
Do you want to deprive New Caledonia of a billion euros of credits?
Do you want to prevent the financing of OPECs?