French government may survive no-confidence vote, says PM Barnier

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France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces a no-confidence vote after he forced through a controversial draft budget without parliamentary approval.

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00:00France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier said it is possible his government may survive

00:07a looming no-confidence vote.

00:10He said it depends on the country's MPs, who he said had a responsibility to the French

00:14people during what he described as a serious period in the country's history.

00:20I think it is possible that there is this reflex of responsibility where, beyond the political

00:26differences, the divergences, the normal contradictions in a democracy, we say that there is a higher

00:31interest.

00:32I think that the country's higher interest, the common good, the national interest, means

00:36something.

00:37Barnier faces the no-confidence vote after pushing through a controversial social budget

00:42bill.

00:43Opposition leaders say adjustments to the bill don't delay their concerns and pushed

00:48for a no-confidence vote.

00:49To bring down the government, 288 MPs need to vote in agreement.

00:54This is possible if both the left and right wing of the National Assembly unite in a majority

00:59vote.

01:00French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly brushed aside the possibility of Barnier's

01:04resignation, describing calls for him to do so as a political fiction.

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