France’s new Prime Minister Lecornu resigns hours after naming cabinet

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has stepped down just weeks after taking office and hours after naming a cabinet, further deepening the country’s long-running political crisis. The French presidency said in a statement on Monday that President Emmanuel Macron has accepted his close ally’s resignation. Appointed nearly a month ago, Lecornu had come under increasing pressure in recent weeks as he struggled to pass a budget through the fractured French Parliament amid a debt crisis. He named his ministers on Sunday evening but quit his post hours later, making his government one of the shortest-lived in French history. Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Paris. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #France #EmmanuelMacron #FrancePolitics #SebastienLecornu #SebastienLecornuResigns #FrancePoliticalCrisis #FrenchGovernment #FrenchPrimeMinisterResigns #FranceNews