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Marine Le Pen, the RN leader, said the budget was "toxic for the French".
Ahead of the vote, Barnier told the National Assembly that voting him out of office would not solve the country's financial problems.
"We have reached a moment of truth, of responsibility," he said, adding that "we need to look at the realities of our debt".
"I did not present almost exclusively difficult measures because I wanted to."
In an interview with French broadcaster TF1 on Wednesday, Le Pen said there was "no other solution" than to remove Barnier.
Asked about the French president's prospects, she replied: "I am not asking for the resignation of Emmanuel Macron."
Many of her allies, however, are increasingly openly hoping they can force him to resign. RN adviser Philippe Olivier told Le Monde the president was “a fallen republican monarch, advancing with his shirt open and a rope around his neck up to the next dissolution [of parliament]”.
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