With a no-confidence vote scheduled for Monday, France’s far-right National Rally (RN) is sifting through its list of candidates in a PC clean-up exercise as it prepares for a possible snap parliamentary election. Marine Le Pen‘s party believes the only way President Emmanuel Macron‘s administration can survive France’s latest budget crisis is to dissolve the country’s deeply divided parliament. “That’s the only democratic solution.”Should that happen, the RN, currently France’s largest parliamentary party, is betting it can win the elusive majority that it has sought for so long. Party leader Le Pen is barred from running in France’s 2027 presidential election following an embezzlement conviction, which she has appealed. A parliamentary election right now, with the possible loss of her seat, would undermine her position of national influence.