French prime minister survives two no-confidence motions in single day
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived two no-confidence votes, preventing another government collapse and providing President Emmanuel Macron with some relief ahead of a larger battle over the national budget.
French politicians in the 577-seat National Assembly rejected a no confidence motion filed by the hard-left France Unbowed party. The 271 votes were 18 short of the 289 needed to bring down the government. A second motion from the far-right National Rally also failed, News.Az reports citingt foreign media.
Thursday’s votes highlighted the continuing political uncertainty driven by a deeply fragmented National Assembly.
Macron has been weathering the blame for France’s political crisis, after he called a surprise snap election last year that resulted in a deadlocked parliament, where no single party secured a clear majority, leaving the far-right in a pivotal position to influence the government's stability.
Lecornu, a 39-year-old centrist and close ally of Macron, had resigned and then re-appointed in the space of a week. He is France's fifth prime minister in less than two years, having been appointed after his predecessor, Francois Bayrou, was ousted in a confidence vote last month.
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