France’s prime minister resigns after less than four weeks in office

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced his resignation on Monday, stepping down less than a month after being appointed.

Lecornu’s decision to quit was a complete shock. It came just a day after forming a new government, which included the controversial choice to appoint Bruno Le Maire to the country’s defense ministry, according to the Associated Press. Le Maire was previously France’s former finance minister.

The resignation was announced to the public on Monday morning after Lecornu met with French President Emmanuel Macron. He was Macron’s fifth prime minister of his second term, which began in 2022, and the fourth in the last year, the Washington Examiner previously reported. Lecornu had the shortest tenure of a prime minister in the history of France’s Fifth Republic, according

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