PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appears likely to survive two no-confidence votes in parliament on Thursday after offering to suspend President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark pension reform to win support from the left.

Lecornu, already France’s shortest-serving prime minister in modern times before he was re-appointed last week, had faced the prospect of an even shorter second stint in office until he made the pensions reform concession on Tuesday.

The Socialists, who hold the key to Lecornu’s political survival, welcomed the move, saying they would not support two no-confidence motions due to be voted on Thursday, one from the far-left and the other from the far-right National Rally.

Despite Lecornu’s offer to mothball the reform until after the 2027 presidential

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