Outgoing French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who intensified a political crisis by resigning earlier this week, said, on Wednesday, October 8, that he expected President Emmanuel Macron to name a new premier within the next 48 hours.

"I feel that a path is possible," Lecornu said in an interview on French television, adding that he believed the prospects of snap parliamentary elections had receded. "I think that the situation allows the president to name a prime minister in the next 48 hours," he said, adding that he was not "running after" the job.

This is a developing story.

Le Monde with AFP