France, Aug. 27 -- President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday gave his "full support" to France's embattled prime minister, who has called a confidence vote that could see his government collapse next month.

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said he would request the confidence vote in a bitterly divided parliament on 8 September, as he tries to garner enough support for his plan to slash spending.

But the main opposition parties said they would not back the prime minister's plan, with the far-right urging Macron to call new parliamentary elections and the hard-left saying the president himself must go.

Macron, now on his sixth prime minister since taking office in 2017, chaired a meeting of his cabinet on Wednesday.

The president has given ...