Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that the days of France's new government are already numbered, predicting an early presidential election in a few months. In an interview with Le Parisien last week,

France mired in deadlock since president called snap elections which weakened his power and ended in a hung parliament

The populist French leader is becoming increasingly emboldened as Emmanuel Macron faces increasing pressure to stand down

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that she was preparing for an early presidential election, saying President Emmanuel Macron's time in office was all but over.

The far-right leader took down the last prime minister. But she now appears willing to work with the next one.

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister in an effort to address the country's deep political crisis, after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the previous government last week (AP Video: Marine Lesprit).

France is in a constitutional crisis, in economically difficult circumstances (it suffered another debt downgrade this weekend).

President Macron reluctantly appoints a would-be ‘reconciler’ as prime minister, while rightist Marine Le Pen rides even higher.

But France's previous government collapsed this month because Marine Le Pen's far-right party and left-wing lawmakers opposed 60 billion euros in spending cuts and tax hikes in the original 2025 budget plan. Bayrou and new Finance Minister Eric Lombard are expected to scale back some of those promises, but the calculations are tough.

France has been mired in political deadlock since Macron gambled on snap elections this summer in the hopes of bolstering his authority

Ever since Xavier Bertrand's candidacy for the Ministry of Justice was first mooted, the Rassemblement National has voiced criticism of the man they consider to be one of their worst political enemies.