France's government collapsed Monday after the country's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu tendered his resignation less than a day after appointing his cabinet. The resignation of the country's second-highest-ranking public official plunged France further into a political crisis that has seen a rotating cast of five different prime ministers in less than two years.

France has been mired in political paralysis since President Emmanuel Macron , who appoints the prime minister, called snap national elections last year that left no political party with an outright majority in the parliament, which is called the National Assembly.

"The political parties continue to adopt a posture as if they all had an absolute majority in the National Assembly. And basically, I found myself in a si

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