Macron reappoints Lecornu as French PM after days of turmoil

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1. What. A. Shitshow.

2. God damit… he might not last the night

3. At least they changed chairs earlier, now it is the same bloke getting up and sitting down on his chair.

4. … what? Is he trying to play 4D chess or is Macron on drugs right now?

5. LOL

6. PMs are serving less and less time. He’s probably already resigned (again).

7. Now watch him stay in power for 20 years.

8. hahahahahahaah

   unironically burst out laughing when i saw the headline

9. Does he last longer than it takes a baguette to go stale? 

10. Good thing we have Macron and not the left ruling or we could have political chaos! Ha!

11. Huh?! “Somehow he returned” kind of opening title.

12. This guy is set to radicalise even more the French voter, either ways, by refusing to “read the room”.

    Guillotine…

13. Ain’t no way Macron just gave lecornu a second chance 💀

14. This is getting ridiculous. And exhausting.

15. lmao finest political theater by this point

16. “Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is ?”

17. Lecornu trying to beat his personal best.

18. Did Macron at least bring Lecornu out in a fake moustache

19. Macron will have to dissolve the National Assembly yet again I guess. There’s no way to form a government out of that three-horse race.

20. Macron is done

21. You really can’t make this up.

22. So do I actually need to buy that lettuce then?

23. For you foreigners who don’t understand what the fuck is going on :

    -Macron seems physically unable to make any concession and appoint someone from another party.

    -Noone else in his party seems to want to suicide their political career by becoming prime minister of a government which won’t have any majority.

    -Only poor Lecornu seems loyal enough to follow the orders so Macron appoints him back, even after he said numerous times he doesn’t want to be prime minister.

    -All this is pathetically hilarious.

24. so whats the next play for france? Early elections?

25. Humorists will soon go on strike, our politicians are hell bent on stealing their jobs right now.

26. See you tomorrow for when the French government collapse again

27. So let me get this straight. Lecornu failed because the left insisted the government takes back the pension reform. Lecornu declined. Now he’s PM again, yet nothing has changed…. Why? What is Macron’s strategy here?

28. ah.. fresh baguette!

29. That is interesting for sure. Lecornu will have to make many concessions to get France a budget, because the other parties will likely try to bring the government down

30. The world’s first entirely non-consensual PM appointment. 

31. I wonder how long he’ll last this time!

32. Well, there is a certain sense in it. If the parties’ objections were to the composition of the government, Lecornu could form a new government with different ministers.

    Yet, somehow, I’m not very hopeful.

33. >Macron made the announcement late on Friday, hours after meeting all the main parties together at the Élysée Palace

    That’s progress. At least they’re talking.

34. I quit!

    Non.

35. There were already calls for an early presidential election. There will be ten times as many by tomorrow.

36. Can’t the French Parliament itself present a PM candidate, or does it always has to be the President? Seems more logical in such a divided chamber.

37. Note that Lecornu had publically begged to not be picked again up until a few hours before this, and this comes just after Macron invited the traditional left and right parties to personally deny any concessions to their faces. Say what you will, but Macron always knows how to put on a good show.

    On a more serious note, this gov probably won’t last more than a week.

38. I think about the people on this sub that said at some point that Macron was smart or even a 4d chess master and I’m really curious to know what they think now

39. RIP the poor journalists who thought they wouldn’t have to pronounce Lecornu anymore

40. What the actual fuck is happening inside Macron’s head ? He can’t seriously expect to brute force his way to 2027, right ?

41. oh come on even for me this is too much and im italian

42. As an Italian, it makes me smile, in a paternalistic way.

    What’s happening is very simple: none of the “professional” French politicians want to be remembered as the one who carried out “that reform.”

    Dear French cousins, what you need to do is very simple: you need a government of technocrats who take responsibility for implementing the reforms that a professional politician doesn’t want to make. A little mayhem in the streets, but nothing major. This way, you’ll get by until the next elections. Good luck.

43. Interesting choice for stability. Will be curious to see if Lecornu can navigate the political divisions better than his predecessor.

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