The president’s move is a last-gasp attempt to stop the next government from collapsing and possibly triggering snap elections.

Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as head of the French government less than a week after he announced his resignation.

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, freshly reappointed late on Friday days after resigning, faces an immediate test to deliver a 2026 budget bill by Monday to give it any chance of passing through a divided parliament by year-end.