{"id":145319,"date":"2025-09-15T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:39:09","slug":"why-macron-thinks-lecornu-can-save-france-from-the-abyss-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145319\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Macron thinks Lecornu can save France from the abyss \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2221716421-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7160559\"  \/>As a former conservative, he has \u201cgood relations with Les R\u00e9publicains party\u201d and represents \u201ccontinuity\u201d with the president\u2019s past governments, Emmanuel Macron said. | Nicolas Economou\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This week, Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure warned that no Socialist would join Lecornu\u2019s government and \u201cif nothing changes\u201d they would not shy from toppling the government.<\/p>\n<p>If the moderate left remains outside the government, they will want to extract a high price for their tacit support. And on budget talks, there\u2019s a massive gap to bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Socialists want to suspend Macron\u2019s flagship reform of pensions, a red line for the president. They also want a tax on France\u2019s ultra-rich individuals, the so-called Zucman tax, which has been slammed by Macron\u2019s centrists as a futile proposal that will just encourage France\u2019s wealthiest to move abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, however, has signaled some room for maneuver on the scale of the budget cuts needed. Bayrou\u2019s plans to squeeze the 2026 French budget by \u20ac43.8 billion may well be shelved. The president \u201cprefers structural reform to lopping \u20ac3 billion off the budget,\u201d said the ally quoted above.<\/p>\n<p>There might be a way. \u201cIf he refuses the Zucman tax but increases the minimum wage, we\u2019ll take a look,\u201d said a Socialist official.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Lecornu\u2019s secret weapon could turn against him. The man who has Macron\u2019s full confidence may have to extract uncomfortable concessions from his own boss \u2014 if he wants to survive as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a former conservative, he has \u201cgood relations with Les R\u00e9publicains party\u201d and represents \u201ccontinuity\u201d with the president\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4498,3409,45,49,48,41850,46,3411,3412,637,3415,77733,3418,3419,1659,3421,3423,3426,6107,3427,75871,3322,75534],"class_list":["post-145319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-banks","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crisis","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-francois-bayrou","tag-french-election-2027","tag-french-political-crisis","tag-french-politics","tag-growth","tag-macron","tag-michel-barnier","tag-parliament","tag-pensions","tag-rights","tag-sebastien-lecornu","tag-tax","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}