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French PM vows new government early October, no 'austerity' budget

Sebastien Lecornu with France's President Emmanuel Macron in Hanoi on 26 May 2025. AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN

French Prime Sebastien Lecornu vowed he would finally appoint a new government by the beginning of October, adding that it was "out of the question" that he would propose an austerity budget, in an interview published Friday.

Lecornu was named by President Emmanuel Macron to stabilise a political crisis on 9 September as the seventh premier of his mandate.

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