French government is ousted less than three months in office after left and far-right team up

The government collapsed after it failed to gather the support of the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen for its budget.

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00:00Michel Barnier becomes the French Fifth Republic's shortest-serving prime minister after a vote

00:06of no confidence topples his government.

00:10The left New Popular Front alliance and the far-right National Rally Party joined forces

00:15to bring him down, with 331 votes backing the motion of censure.

00:21Barnier's government, the first to be ousted by a motion of censure in over 60 years, faced

00:26two separate no-confidence votes on Monday after the prime minister invoked a constitutional

00:32article to bypass a parliamentary vote and push through the social security budget.