The shock move comes 26 days after his appointment following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou.

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned just weeks after his appointment to the role, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis.

The bitter tribalism that drove the United States into a government shutdown is putting compromise out of reach, analysts say — and threatening to turn a staring contest between the Democrats and Donald Trump’s Republicans into a protracted crisis.