France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and foes alike threatened to topple his government.<\/p>\n
His resignation was unexpected and unprecedented and marked another major deepening of France’s political crisis.<\/p>\n
French stocks dropped sharply, as did the euro, on news of the resignation. |<\/p>\n
After weeks of consultations with political parties across the board, Mr Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, appointed his ministers late yesterday, and the cabinet had been set to hold its first meeting this afternoon.<\/p>\n
But the new cabinet line-up had angered opponents and allies alike, who either found it too rightwing or not enough, raising questions on how long it could last, at a time when France is already mired deep in political crisis, with no group holding a majority in a fragmented parliament.<\/p>\n
Mr Lecornu handed his resignation to Mr Macron this morning.<\/p>\n
“Mr Sebastien Lecornu has submitted the resignation of his Government to the President of the Republic, who has accepted it,” the Elysee’s press office said.<\/p>\n
French politics has become increasingly unstable since Mr Macron’s re-election in 2022 for want of any party or grouping holding a parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n
Mr Macron’s decision to call a snap parliamentary election last year deepened the crisis by producing an even more fragmented parliament.<\/p>\n
Mr Lecornu, who was only appointed last month, was Mr Macron’s fifth prime minister in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-63243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}