France plunges into uncertainty again after PM Lecornu announces resignation

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France’s political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower. The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government. FRANCE 24’s French politics editor Marc Perelman sums up the situation.