French PM Lecornu asks Parliament not to use the budget to vote down his government

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu asked lawmakers on Tuesday not to use the vote on the budget as a pretext to vote his government out.

“There is no longer any pretext for a no-confidence motion,” he said.

Lecornu was addressing parliament to spell out his budget priorities, in the hope of staving off losing a no-confidence vote that would plunge France further into the political mire.

(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, editing by Inti Landauro)

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