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French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just weeks after his appointment, signalling a renewed crisis in French politics.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron accepted his resignation on Monday morning, hours after Lecornu unveiled the first names of his government.<\/p>\n
Lecornu, appointed on 9 September, faced fierce criticism from his own camp and the opposition after unveiling his cabinet. He has become the shortest-serving head of government since 1958.<\/p>\n
Lecornu was due to address the National Assembly on Tuesday to set out his government\u2019s roadmap. <\/p>\n
Instead, his resignation has plunged France into a new political crisis, adding further pressure on Macron, who has now presided over three failed minority governments.<\/p>\n
Lecornu had been tasked with the politically daunting job of steering a slimmed-down budget through parliament to curb France\u2019s ballooning deficit. <\/p>\n
France\u2019s deficit stood at 5.8% of GDP in 2024, with debt at 113% \u2014 both far above EU rules that cap deficits at 3%. <\/p>\n
After announcing the first prominent names in his cabinet, Lecornu immediately came under fire. <\/p>\n
Critics denounced both its political direction and its lack of renewal: 12 of the 18 ministers had already served under predecessor Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou before his ousting on 8 September. <\/p>\n
Conservative Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, himself just reconfirmed in office, said on Sunday that the government\u2019s composition \u201cdid not reflect the promised break.\u201d <\/p>\n
Far-right National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella, speaking alongside figurehead Marine Le Pen at party headquarters, called for snap parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n
“There can be no stability without a return to the polls and without the dissolution of parliament,\u201d Bardella said, adding he \u201choped\u201d such a move would come quickly.<\/p>\n
Even within the presidential camp, discontent was growing. Gabriel Attal, former prime minister and leader of the Renaissance party, lamented that his proposed method of agreeing first on a budget compromise before naming a government had not been followed. <\/p>\n
In a message to his parliamentary group, he denounced the \u201cappalling spectacle\u201d offered by \u201cthe entire political class\u201d in the wake of Lecornu\u2019s short-lived government.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just weeks after his appointment, signalling a renewed crisis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,5607,56383,451,3,86620,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-204713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-french-politics","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-prime-minister","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}