The Minister of the French Army Sébastien Lecornu left the Palais d’Elysee at the end of the weekly meeting of the cabinet in Paris on November 8, 2023.
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The new French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned just a few weeks after his appointment, plunging the country into a new political crisis.
Lecornu, fifth PM in France in less than two years, has caused his work to convince the country – and investors – that he can sufficiently unite a fraities and divided parliament to obtain a 2026 budget on the line.
It was installed in early September in a context of public disorders and dissatisfaction with the disorderly state of French affairs after several successive governments were not adopted by budgets detailing the discounts of expenditure and tax increases.
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