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France has been thrown into yet another period of political turbulence following the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday, making him the shortest-serving head of government in modern French history.
Lecornu was President Emmanuel Macron’s fifth prime minister since 2022 and the third since last summer's snap parliamentary elections.
Those elections left France with a hung parliament divided into three blocs: the president's centrist alliance, a left-wing coalition and the far-right National Rally.
None has a workable majority, and each is more focused on sharpening its position ahead of the 2027 presidential race than on compromise.
The political crisis is also a financial one.
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