France, Nov. 1 -- France's Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu was on Saturday confronting the prospect of more political wrangling after MPs rejected a wealth tax. The decision could bring down his government if a levy on the super-rich is not in the budget.

Lecornu's administrationis under pressure to pass a spending bill by the end of the year to rein in France's deficit and soaring debt,.

But efforts have been hampered by a deadlock in the National Assembly.

A left-wing bloc made up of the Socialist, Communist, Green parties and the hard-left France Unbowed had proposed a minimum two-percent tax on wealth over €100 million, dubbed the "Zucman tax" after the French economist Gabriel Zucman who devised it.

But the proposal was re...