France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was under mounting pressure on Sunday to pull together a cabinet as he struggled to ensure support on the left and right.

French politics has been in turmoil since President Emmanuel Macron gambled on snap elections last summer in the hopes of bolstering his authority. The move backfired, producing a parliament fractured between three rival blocs.

Lecornu's two immediate predecessors, Francois Bayrou and Michel Barnier, were ousted in a standoff over France's austerity budget in a deeply divided parliament.

In early September, Macron named 39-year-old Lecornu the seventh prime minister of his mandate in a bid to defuse a deepening political crisis. He plumped for one of his closest allies rather than seeking to broaden the appeal of the gove

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