Lecornu was asked by President Macron to stay on until Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to achieve “stability” for the country.

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.

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