France's Green party said on Tuesday it planned to put forward a vote of no confidence in the government over its handling of a heatwave response as the country counted heat-related deaths from two episodes of extreme heat so far this year.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has called the 10,000 deaths caused by the heatwave, reported by the Greens of Les Écologistes, 'scandalous' and 'false'. During a heated…

The Greens say the government bears responsibility for excess deaths during France’s record heat wave.