Paris, Jan. 9 -- France's hard-left party La France Insoumise (LFI) on Friday filed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's government, accusing it of failing to defend France's interests over the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.
Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI parliamentary group, said on X that France had been "humiliated" in Brussels by the trade deal.
Earlier on Friday, member states of the European union (EU) gave provisional backing to the EU-Mercosur free trade deal in a qualified-majority vote, paving the way for the bloc to formally sign it in Paraguay, according to EU sources. France, Poland, Austria, Ireland and Hungary opposed the deal, while Belgium abstained.
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