French PM survives two confidence votes
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A pretender to the French throne has come forward as an underdog candidate to address the chaos within the nation's parliament.
Sébastien Lecornu had been in office for 26 days when he resigned on Monday - he was given 48 hours by President Macron to make a plan for the "stability" of France.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government will live to see another day. After a high-stakes policy speech and the unveiling of his draft budget on Tuesday, the Socialist Party (PS) said it would not join efforts to topple the government,
The French prime minister who resigned Monday saying current politics made it impossible to do his job was reappointed to that job by President Emmanuel Macron by the end of the week.