French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived two votes of no-confidence that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos.
The National Assembly votes clear the way for the embattled Mr Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 budget for the European Union’s second-largest economy through parliament’s powerful but bitterly divided lower house before the end of the year.
Mr Lecornu’s survival also spares any im
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