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 September 8, 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 his "full support" to Bayrou's initiative, spokeswoman Sophie Primas to

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