French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived two no-confidence votes in parliament on Thursday, winning crucial backing from the Socialist Party thanks to his pledge to suspend President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension reform, APA reports, citing Reuters.
The two motions presented by the hard-left France Unbowed and the far-right National Rally (RN) secured just 271 and 144 votes respectively -- well short of the 289 votes needed to bring down Lecornu's days-old government.
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French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived the first of two no-confidence votes in parliament on Thursday, after winning crucial backing from the Socialist Party thanks to his pledge to suspend President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension reform, APA reports, citing Reuters.
The motion presented by the hard-left France Unbowed party secured 271 votes, short of the 289 votes needed to bring down Lecornu’s week-old government.
A second vote, tabled by the far-right National Rally, is expected within the hour and also looks certain to be defeated.
Lecornu’s offer to mothball the pensions reform until after the 2027 presidential election helped sway the Socialists, giving the government a lifeline in the deeply fragmented National Assembly.
Despite the reprieve, the vote has underscored the fragility of Macron’s administration midway through his final term.
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