{"id":79635,"date":"2025-10-17T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79635\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:44:13","slug":"french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-survives-two-no-confidence-votes-by-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79635\/","title":{"rendered":"French PM S\u00e9bastien Lecornu survives two no-confidence votes by MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecornu survives two no-confidence votes, but more challenges to comepublished at 12:03 BST 16 October<\/p>\n

12:03 BST 16 October<\/p>\n

\"\"Cachella Smith
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"LecornuImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu has survived two no-confidence votes after separate motions were lodged against him amid continued political turmoil in the country.<\/p>\n

Each vote would have needed to secure 289 votes in favour in order to be passed. <\/p>\n

The first, which followed a motion filed by the far-left party La France Insoumise, failed by a narrower margin than expected of just 18 votes.<\/p>\n

The second, however, was never expected to succeed – with MPs considered unlikely to position themselves voting alongside Marine Le Pen’s far right party.<\/p>\n

Lecornu has survived today but his predecessors were not so lucky. Just last month, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou was ousted when he called a vote of no-confidence in himself, and before that, Michel Barnier resigned after losing a no-confidence vote in December 2024.<\/p>\n

And Lecornu himself has his work cut out for him moving forward with a lot to achieve, not least the 2026 budget, alongside a fragmented National Assembly in which his party does not have a majority.<\/p>\n

Our Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield writes that he will be fighting for survival<\/a> – with the Socialists persuaded not to join today’s censure only after Lecornu put forward suspending controversial pension reforms.<\/p>\n

While it said it would support the government today, the party wants to overturn large parts of the prime minister’s budget meaning securing a majority on that front could prove more difficult.<\/p>\n

We’re ending our live coverage but for more on the suspended pension reforms you can have a look at our previous article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lecornu survives two no-confidence votes, but more challenges to comepublished at 12:03 BST 16 October 12:03 BST 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-79635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}