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Lecornu survives 2 no-confidence votes, averts political crisis
The Morning Standard
|October 17, 2025
FRENCH Prime Minister Sé-bastien Lecornu survived two votes of no-confidence Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos.
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S ©bastien Lecornu
The National Assembly votes clear the way for the embattled Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 budget for the European Union’s second-largest economy through Parliament’s powerful but bitterly divided lower house before the end of the year.
This story is from the October 17, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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