France’s new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and dealing a fresh blow to President Emmanuel Macron.

“Mr Sebastien Lecornu has submitted the resignation of his government to the president of the republic (Macron), which he accepted,” the French presidency said in a terse statement.

Lecornu’s stint in office was the shortest ever for a prime minister in modern France.

His resignation compounds a political crisis that has rocked France for over a year, after Macron called legislative elections in the summer of 2024 which ended in a hung parliament.

The shock move appears to have been forced by the reaction of the right-wing Republicans (LR) to Lecornu’s cabinet announced late Sunday, which led the par

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