Beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron has appointed outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, handing ...

The French president named one of his loyalists to succeed Francois Bayrou, who resigned after just 194 lawmakers of the ...

Sébastien Lecornu, 39, is a Macron loyalist who has served as defense minister since 2022. The National Assembly ousted ...

Protesters blocked roads, lit blazes and were met with volleys of tear gas on Wednesday in Paris and elsewhere in France, ...

The root of the latest expected government collapse was Macron's stunning decision to dissolve the National Assembly in June ...

Macron is widely known on the international stage, and has held his role since 2017. But at home, French journalist and ...

Macron has cycled through several prime ministers in the past three years, and the public is blaming him for the instability.

Lecornu was already tipped for the position last year and will succeed François Bayrou who was ousted after losing a ...

Protesters blocked roads, lit blazes, and were met with volleys of tear gas on Wednesday in France, heaping pressure ...

Emmanuel Macron's quick decision to name Lecornu comes ahead of a day of mass disruption planned Wednesday by a protest ...

Francois Bayrou, who survived just nine months in office, submitted his resignation to Macron earlier on Tuesday.