French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to hold fresh elections in the wake of the collapse of another government in Paris.

Prime Minister François Bayrou officially tendered his resignation to President Macron at the Élysée Palace on Tuesday, following a confidence vote in the National Assembly the previous evening in an apparent bid to gain legitimacy for an unpopular set of budget austerity measures aimed at confronting France’s soaring debt levels.

Bayrou has thus become the fourth-shortest tenured prime minister since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. His successor will become the fifth prime minister appointed by Macron since his reelection in 2022, following the collapse of two governments over the past ten months.

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