FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Sébastien Lecornu as his fifth Prime Minister in the space of two years.

It comes after Francois Bayrou was sensationally ousted in a confidence motion yesterday.

The new Prime Minister will now be tasked with forming a government amid France's burgeoning debt crisis.

A close ally of President Macron, Lecornu will now face the unenviable task of forming a government amid a deeply divided parliament.

His predecessor Francois Bayrou was voted out by the National Assembly yesterday in a confidence motion after he proposed deeply unpopular austerity measures.

He had said France's youth risk could be burdened with debt "for the sake of the comfort of boomers" unless the country addressed its spiralling debt.

"The whole model of our nation n

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