France's prime minister on Friday urged lawmakers to reach a compromise to pass an austerity budget, after leftists threatened to oust his government if it did not include a tax on the very wealthy.
Sebastien Lecornu has promised to get a spending bill through a deeply divided parliament by the end of the year, after the legislature toppled his two predecessors over cost-cutting measures.
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