The French president's Elysée palace made the announcement late on Friday evening after a day of crunch talks with party leaders.
The statement read: "The president has named Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, and charged him with forming a government."
Lecornu then posted on social media that he was “accepting - out of duty - the mission entrusted to me by the President to do everything possible to provide France with a budget by the end of the year and to respond to the everyday problems faced by our fellow citizens”.
The announcement comes at the end of a turbulent week in French politics; on Sunday evening Lecornu - who was first appointed as prime minister at the beginning of September - announced his government, and then the following morning he handed in his resignation.
Macron then tasked his former PM with holding 'emergency talks' to try and secure a consensus among the political groups, giving him a deadline of Wednesday.
On Wednesday evening, Lecornu appeared on TV and announced that the president would name a new prime minister within 48 hours.
Friday saw the leaders of the main political groups - with the exception of the far-right and the far-left - invited to talks at the Elysée and at 10pm on Friday the announcement was finally made, reappointing Lecornu in the role.
Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National party had been excluded from the talks, and her deputy Jordan Bardella described Lecornu's reappointment as a "democratic shame" and said party members would vote for a no-confidence motion in the government.
Also excluded were the far-left La France Insoumise - party coordinator Manuel Bompard described the reappointment as "sticking two fingers up at the French people".
His political survival, however, will depend on whether he can persuade enough of the centre, centre-left and centre-right to support him, at least long enough to pass a Budget.
The outgoing education minister Elisabeth Borne congratulated him and said "now more than ever it is time to build a compromise."
The French constitution states that if a prime minster resigns, it is then up to the president to decide whether to appoint a new PM, or hold parliamentary elections.
Macron is thought to be keen to avoid fresh elections, since polling suggests they would be unlikely to resolve the deadlock that has gripped the Assemblée nationale since the most recent elections in July 2024.
The most recent polling puts Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National in the lead, with the combined leftist block second and Macron's centrists trailing in third - although it's far from clear whether any group would gain enough seats for a parliamentary majority.
However Lecornu is his fifth prime minister in less than two years, with the previous two brought down over the issue of the Budget.
The clock is now ticking for the 2026 Budget, with debates supposed to begin by mid October.
Adding to the pressure is France's spiralling deficit, with parliament split over the best way to tackle it.
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