Macron under pressure as new premier resigns

France's new prime minister resigned yesterday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock.

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Outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who submitted his government's resignation to the French president yesterday morning, arrives to deliver a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris.AFP

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Sebastien Lecornu stepped down just 14 hours after naming his government and had been due to hold his first cabinet meeting in the afternoon. But his new government had raised hackles across the spectrum before ministers even entered their new offices and he risked an immediate no confidence vote in parliament this week.

Mr Lecornu's 27-day stint in office was the shortest ever for a prime minister in modern France.

"The conditions were not fulfilled for me to carry out my function as prime minister," Mr Lecornu said, denouncing the "partisan appetites" of factions who he said had forced his resignation.