France\u2019s political crisis has deepened after the new prime minister dramatically resigned within hours of appointing a government.<\/p>\n
S\u00e9bastien Lecornu was the third French prime minister in a year, as the country continued to lurch from one political crisis to another. He quit hours before his first cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon. Macron accepted Lecornu\u2019s resignation on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Lecornu had faced furious criticism from opposition politicians when he announced a new government that was virtually unchanged since last month\u2019s ousting of his predecessor, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou.<\/p>\n
The proposed new government was dominated by President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s allies, leaving the government almost unchanged.<\/p>\n
Opposition parties said Lecornu had backtracked on the \u201cprofound break\u201d with past politics that he had promised when he took over from the unpopular Bayrou, who was ousted on 9 September<\/a> over a proposed budget squeeze.<\/p>\n The question now is whether the president will decide to dissolve parliament and call another snap election.<\/p>\n Jordan Bardella, the president of Marine Le Pen\u2019s far-right National Rally party, said: \u201cThere cannot be a return to stability without a return to the ballot box and the national assembly being dissolved.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very clearly Emmanuel Macron who decided this government himself. He has understood nothing of the political situation we are in.\u201d<\/p>\n The National Rally has pushed for another election, believing they can increase their seats and presence in parliament.<\/p>\n France has gone through a period of instability and political crisis<\/a> since the centrist Macron called an inconclusive snap election last year. The parliament remains divided between the three blocs: the left, the far right and the centre, with no clear majority.<\/p>\n A budget for next year must be agreed within weeks, even though political parties are at loggerheads and Lecornu\u2019s tenure ended in less than a month.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to This is Europe<\/p>\n The most pressing stories and debates for Europeans \u2013 from identity to economics to the environment<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Parties from the left to far right were to hold meetings on Monday to decide whether or not to vote to oust Lecornu in a no-confidence vote, and it appeared that the government would collapse before it had even started work. Lecornu apparently decided to leave before he could be ousted.<\/p>\n Most of the big government posts announced on Sunday night remained the same, including G\u00e9rald Darmanin as justice minister and Rachida Dati as culture minister.<\/p>\n The role of economy minister, which is crucial as a divided parliament struggles to agree on a budget, went to Roland Lescure, a Macron ally who had previously served as industry and energy minister at the start of Macron\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n In a surprise move, Bruno Le Maire, a Macron ally who had served as economy minister for seven years of his presidency, returned to government as defence minister. This enraged politicians across the spectrum, who saw it as a sign that there would be no questioning or change of Macron\u2019s pro-business stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France\u2019s political crisis has deepened after the new prime minister dramatically resigned within hours of appointing a government.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-181492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181492","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=181492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}