French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Monday survived a no-confidence motion brought by the Green party over the government's handling of recent heatwaves, including one in June that killed more than 2,000 people.
The motion followed five days of unseasonably high temperatures in May, then a record-breaking 11-day heatwave in June, which led to school closures and cancelled festivals throughout France.
Green party lawmakers behind the no-confidence vote accused the government of failing to implement measures to address rising temperatures linked to climate change.
The motion won the backing of just 132 members of the National Assembly, largely from the Greens and the hard-left France Insoumise party, who failed to secure the backing of the pivotal Socialist bloc or the far-right Rassemblement National needed to reach the required threshold of 289 votes.
Before the vote, the prime minister accused the signatories of "exploiting the victims" of the extreme heat episodes, describing the motion as political manoeuvring ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
