France’s newly reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Saturday scrambled to get an austerity budget approved, as more parties threatened to topple him again, after his first term lasted only 27 days.

President Emmanuel Macron announced Lecornu’s reinstatement late on Friday, just four days after the prime minister resigned and his just-announced government collapsed.

The reappointment provoked outrage across the political spectrum and pledges to vote it down at the first opportunity.

In order to create a longer-lasting government, Lecornu pledged Saturday to work with all the mainstream political movements and vowed to select cabinet members who are not “imprisoned by the parties”.

He told La Tribune that he quit “because the conditions were no longer met” and said that he wou

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