President Emmanuel Macron said he thinks the French government can survive a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, when the far-right party of Marine Le Pen is expected to join forces with a left-leaning coalition to topple the administration.
The president’s remarks come a day before the National Assembly will hold the vote in Paris, which was triggered over a budget dispute. Le Pen said this week that she’ll support any motion to bring down the government.
For the National Rally to support the no-confidence motion "would be a vote of unbearable cynicism,” Macron told reporters in Riyadh on Tuesday. "I can’t believe that they’d vote for the” leftist alliance’s motion.
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