The French prime minister Sebastien Lecornu has survived two no-confidence votes, avoiding another government collapse and giving president Emmanuel Macron some respite before a bigger battle over the national budget.
French politicians in the 577-seat National Assembly rejected a no-confidence motion filed by the hard-left France Unbowed party. The 271 votes were 18 short of the 289 needed to bring down the government. A second motion from the far-right National Rally also failed.
