French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, his office says.

The news on Wednesday came as it was revealed that a majority of lawmakers were against holding a snap parliamentary election amid France's worst crisis in decades.

Sebastien Lecornu, France's fifth prime minister in two years, tendered his and his government's resignation on Monday, just hours after announcing the cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern France.

But at Macron's request, Lecornu has held further consultations with political leaders spanning the centre left to centre right in an effort to defuse the crisis.

"A majority of deputies oppose dissolution (of parliament); a platform for stability exists; a path is possible to adopt a budget b

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