It will be ‘part deux’ for Sébastien Lecornu as President Emmanuel Macron reappointed him as prime minister on Friday evening just days after he sensationally resigned and declared that his mission was “over” after less than a month in office.

In a desperate attempt to maintain control in Paris and avoid the dissolution of the National Assembly and subsequent parliamentary elections, President Macron held a series of frenzied talks at the Élysée Palace on Friday with various party heads, excepting Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) and Marine Le Pen’s populist Rassemblement National (National Rally/RN).

Reports emerged that President Macron had come to an agreement with the left-wing Socialist Party to not censure a second Lecornu government in ex

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