Paris
Reuters
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Sunday named Roland Lescure, a close ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, as finance minister in a new cabinet that saw several senior ministers in the last ousted government retain their posts.
Lescure, who was swift to rally behind Macron when he first ran for the presidency in 2017, briefly spent time inside the Socialist Party early in his career. His nomination was widely seen as a gesture to the left ahead of further delicate cross-party budget negotiations.
Budget talks have grown increasingly fraught, requiring delicate trade-offs between three ideologically opposed blocs – Macron’s ruling…
