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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley, Europe correspondent

France’s parliamentary permacrisis is the dawning of a new political reality

Sebastien Lecornu with an image of Emmanuel Macron behind him
Sebastien Lecornu appears during a live TV interview on France 2 in Paris last week. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

In October 2022, when Rishi Sunak moved into 10 Downing St, he became the fifth British prime minister to take up the office in six years.

Unleashed on the UK by Brexit, this was unprecedented political turmoil. So how might we describe what is happening in France, now on its fifth (or sixth, depending how you count) premier in two years – three of them in the past 10 months?

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