France has entered another phase of political instability after Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just 27 days after taking office. Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron and the country’s former defence minister, became France’s third prime minister in a year and the fifth since 2022. His resignation came barely a day after announcing a new cabinet, marking the shortest tenure of any French PM in the history of the Fifth Republic, which began in 1958.

Lecornu had been appointed on September 9 to replace François Bayrou , who stepped down following the rejection of controversial austerity measures in parliament. Lecornu’s brief was to steer the government through a deadlocked National Assembly, where no party commands an outright majority. But within h

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