French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two parliamentary confidence votes on Thursday, giving him a fragile reprieve and an opportunity to pass a budget for 2026.
Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, made it through thanks to the abstention of French Socialists and centre-right lawmakers in France’s fractured parliament.
In the tightest of the two votes, tabled by the far left and the far right respectively, 271 lawmakers of the 577 members of the National Assembly voted to topple him — just 18 votes short of the required threshold.
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