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French PM Faces Parliament In Political Crisis

Sebastien Lecornu is the seventh prime minister of Emmanuel Macron's mandate (Credit: AFP)

Embattled French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was to give a high-stakes speech to a deeply divided parliament on Tuesday, with opponents already trying to topple his government.

France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, is in a political crisis that has spooked markets and raised concern about its minority government's ability to govern and pass measures to ease the country's debt burden.

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