French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has survived the first of two no-confidence votes in parliament today, after promising to pause a controversial pension reform plan.
The no-confidence motion was brought by the far-left France Unbowed party, but it received only 271 votes-18 short of the 289 needed to remove the government. Lecornu was able to stay in office with the support of the Socialist Party, which backed him after he agreed to delay the pension reform until after the next presidential election in 2027.
A second no-confidence vote, this one from the far-right National Rally, was expected later in the day but was not likely to pass.
Lecornu’s promise to delay pension changes gave his week-old, fragile government a temporary reprieve in a deeply divided National Assembly. However, the vote highlighted ongoing instability within Macron’s administration midway through his final term.
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