French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and his government resigned Monday, merely 12 hours after the Cabinet was appointed.
Opposition parties and some of Macron’s minority coalition partners reacted with fury, as many of the ministers were either holdovers from the last government or had previously served in high-level posts.
The 39-year-old Lecornu was Macron’s fifth prime minister since his reelection in 2022, and was tapped just a month ago for the top job. He was tasked with passing a slimmed-down budget to rein in France’s budget deficit and assuage financial markets that the eurozone’s second-largest economy had not become ungovernable.
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