PARIS — France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, 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, which Lecornu said meant he could not do his job. His shock departure drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.

Everyone is now waiting to hear what President Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet publicly commented, plans to do next. Opposition parties pressed him to resign, or call a snap parliamentary election, saying there was no other way out of the crisis. It was unclear when the centrist president would speak.

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