PARIS /

France Prime Minister overwhelmingly won a confidence vote in the National Assembly after vowing to bring the country’s budget deficit under the European Union limit of 3 percent this year without raising taxes.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told lawmakers that France’s debt had reached an unbearable level, putting the country at the mercy of financial markets. Philippe won the vote yesterday in France’s lower house of parliament by 370-67.

Besides getting support from President Emmanuel Macron’s party which has a wide majority after a landslide win last month he also got votes from centrist allies and even some conservative lawmakers.