French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to resign on Friday after right-wing and left-wing lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging France into its second major political crisis in six months.
Barnier is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history since Georges Pompidou's no-confidence vote in 1962.
The hard-left and right have condemned Barnier for pushing through an unpopular budget through an unelected parliament without a vote.
The draft budget calls for 60 billion euros ($63.07 billion) in savings in a bid to shrink a huge deficit.
Barnier's resignation would end weeks of tension over the budget, which Marine Le Pen's far-right National Assembly has denounced as too harsh on working people.
It would also further weaken President Emmanuel Macron, who has been embroiled in a political crisis with the disastrous results of a snap election ahead of the Paris Olympics.
However, the ongoing political turmoil has forced him to resign.
France now risks ending the year without a stable government or a 2025 budget, although the constitution allows for special measures.
The French political turmoil would further weaken a European Union already reeling from the emergence of a German coalition government and the return of US President Donald Trump to the White House.
