French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month

Lecornu criticised the "partisan appetites" of political factions, who he said had refused to compromise.

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He was appointed after François Bayrou's government collapsed when MPs refused to back his budget. Bayrou was himself installed after Michel Barnier was ousted last December.

Lecornu quit a day after unveiling his cabinet, which was largely unchanged from Bayrou's and was fiercely criticised across the board by parties in the National Assembly, who threatened to vote it down.

French media said French President Emmanuel Macron was not expected to make a statement on Monday, leaving questions swirling over his next move to break the impasse.

The nation's politics has been highly unstable since July 2024, when Macron called for snap parliamentary elections in a bid to achieve a clear majority following a bruising loss for his party in the European Parliament vote.