France's Le Pen seeks to bring down Macron's prime minister Barnier

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she will seek to topple Macron's prime minister, Barnier, in the French parliament.

Just as Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral rises from the ashes, France’s government is teetering on the brink of collapse.

President Emmanuel Macron put on a brave face last week while touring the rebuilt Paris landmark gutted by fire in 2019, as his administration hailed the reconstruction as a symbol of national unity and French can-do.

But his fragile parliamentary coalition could be toppled by an unlikely combination of far-right and leftist opponents Wednesday.

“The country is at a turning point,” Finance Minister Antoine Armand told French television Tuesday, urging its politicians “not to plunge the country into uncertainty.”

It’s the latest chapter in the political instability roiling France and Europe as a whole, where far-right populists and nationalists — many of them allies of American President-elect Donald Trump — are capitalizing on public discontent about rising prices and immigration, and challenging mainstream political parties.

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