President Emmanuel Macron on Monday blamed opponents for political “chaos” as his embattled prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, urged his new cabinet ministers to put their egos aside for the sake of France.

France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy, is in a deep political crisis which has spooked markets and raised concern about its minority government’s ability to govern and ease the country’s debt burden.

Following an extraordinary week of political drama, which saw Lecornu resign on October 6 only to be re-appointed by Macron on Friday, the 39-year-old prime minister urged his new cabinet to do everything to help France overcome the political crisis.

“I am counting on you to show the utmost restraint and humility,” Lecornu, the seventh prime minister of Macron’s mandate, told his

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