# French government slams Marine Le Pen’s alternative budget

https://mins.news/en/item/89151

- euronews, 2026-10-07 05:55 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/07/france-government-slams-marine-le-pens-alternative-budget

> The French government has attacked National Rally leader Marine Le Pen’s counter-budget, calling it a colourful fantasy and a flimsy “Potemkin budget” that is purely rhetorical and impossible to enforce.

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