{"id":137244,"date":"2025-09-14T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137244\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:38:18","slug":"new-french-pm-spares-national-holidays-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137244\/","title":{"rendered":"New French PM spares national holidays \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is always in times of deadlock and tension that our country has moved forward,\u201d he said. \u201cMy state of mind is simple: I want neither instability nor immobility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lecornu is doing his best to distance himself<\/a> from the budget cuts that Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou tried<\/a> and failed to push through the French assembly, leading to his downfall on Sept. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

France is trying to rein in its spending to reduce its debt pile of \u20ac3.3 trillion and a budget deficit equal to 5.4 percent of the country\u2019s economic output.<\/p>\n

But a split legislature has brought French policymaking to a standstill, since President Emmanuel Macron called snap parliamentary elections last year. Lecornu will be the latest premier to try to secure a budget with the support of the center-left Socialists and the conservative Les R\u00e9publicains.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell the French \u2026 we will get there,\u201d Lecornu said<\/a> earlier this week at the official handover ceremony, standing alongside Bayrou. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is always in times of deadlock and tension that our country has moved forward,\u201d he said. \u201cMy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[458,84,460,461,418,819,1807,2958,2959,59,46776,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-137244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-francois-bayrou","tag-french-political-crisis","tag-french-politics","tag-gb","tag-sebastien-lecornu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}