(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Michel Barnier warned that France has reached its “moment of truth,” as far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to join a left-wing coalition to topple his government as soon as this week.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsSubscribe to the Bloomberg Daybreak podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen.Le Pen’s National Rally as well as a leftist
They’re not “joining a coalition”, they may just vote the same once. There’s no coordination between the two. The left said from the start “this government sucks, we must get rid of them”. The far right said “this government needs to agree to x, y and z or we get rid of them” (and the government did x and y but not z).
The far right are split between the fact that actually their program is very close to the government and the fact that they must look like “the opposition” for their electors.