Macron asks outgoing French PM to make last-ditch effort to resolve political crisis

French president requests Sébastien Lecornu stay on for 48 hours after he quit complaining of ‘egos’

• Explainer: What happened on a chaotic day in French politics – and what could happen next?

Hours after France’s new prime minister resigned less than a month after he was appointed, Emmanuel Macron has asked him to stay on for two more days in a last-ditch effort to chart a way out of the country’s rapidly deepening political crisis.

The French president on Monday evening gave Sébastien Lecornu – who had earlier become the third prime minister of the EU’s second-biggest economy to quit in a year – 48 hours to “conduct final negotiations … to define a platform for action and stability”.

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