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France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, just 14 hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country's political crisis.
The unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government, with Lecornu saying that meant he could not do his job.
Lecornu, who was Macron's fifth prime minister in two years, stayed in the job for only 27 days, highlighting divisions in the French parliament as the euro zone's second-largest economy struggles to put its finances in order.