Emmanuel Macron is looking for a new prime minister on Thursday after the far right joined forces with the left to push through a no-confidence motion against his government over a budget dispute.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage,

If the vote passes, Mr Barnier, who has been in the job for less than three months, will have to tender his resignation and that of his government to President Emmanuel Macron, who ushered in the crisis by calling a snap election in June. Not since 1962 has a French government been brought down by a vote of no confidence.

The beleaguered president will likely try to find a caretaker PM to keep the French state functioning, amid an intractable parliamentary stalemate.