By Benoit Van Overstraeten and Diana Mandia PARIS (Reuters) -French lawmakers are all but certain to oust the government with a no-confidence motion on Wednesday, plunging the euro zone's second-biggest economic power deeper into political turmoil.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's three-month-old minority government was toppled on Wednesday in a no-confidence motion supported by left-wing and far-right opposition lawmakers. Marine Le Pen's far-right nationalists and a leftist alliance voted together to oust the government.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government is in tatters after he lost a historic no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes. France's far-right and left-wing forces joined together to vote to oust Mr Barnier after just a few months in the job,