Caretaker French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has downplayed the possibility of dissolving parliament after holding talks with political parties aimed at forming a coalition and passing an austerity budget to resolve the country’s most severe political crisis in years, Al Jazeera reported.

Lecornu said the discussions reflected a shared desire among political groups to approve the proposed budget cuts by the end of the year. The development follows weeks of stalemate that have sparked growing calls for President Emmanuel Macron to resign.

“This willingness creates a momentum and a convergence, obviously, which make the possibilities of a dissolution more remote,” Lecornu said in a speech on Wednesday at Paris’s Matignon Palace, according to Al Jazeera.

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