00:00After days of political tension here in France,
00:03French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
00:05has survived two no-confidence votes in Parliament this Thursday.
00:12Both motions, one filed by the hard-left France Unbowed Party
00:16and the other by Marine Le Pen's far-right national rally,
00:21fell short of the 289 votes needed to topple Lecornu's new fragile government.
00:29The result spares French President Emmanuel Macron from an immediate political crisis,
00:35but it also underlines just how weak his alliance has become.
00:40Lecornu's survival was helped by a last-minute concession.
00:44On Tuesday night, he announced the suspension of the highly unpopular pension reform
00:51that would gradually raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old.
00:57This move convinced most of the moderate-left socialist MPs to abstain rather than vote against him.
01:05For Macron, this buys him time but not stability.
01:09His government now faces a deeply fractured parliament
01:14ahead of highly explosive debates over next year's budget.
01:19Thank you.
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