France’s President Macron gives outgoing PM Lecornu one last chance • FRANCE 24 English

And we’re with France 24 politics editor Mark Pearlman. Uh Mark, pressure from the far right. We’ll hear more about the pressure from the left as well when we cross over to CL Pakana shortly at the National Assembly. First off uh have you digested the news of the last minutes uh not not the last hours but the last minutes with uh uh this uh uh lease on life given to Sebastian Luc until Wednesday evening says the president to perhaps try to cobble together something. Yes, clearly. I mean, the last 24 hours have been totally crazy and they just got crazier two minutes before we went on air when the Eliza Palace uh issued this kind of short statement that saying that the president had asked Sebastian Luki to try blast talks until Wednesday night to find a platform of quote unquote stability and responsibility cuz it was something off right with the uh with the sequence. Normally you go see the president then you announce your resignation which is what he did this morning. The first thing he did I mean let’s just rewind yesterday after days of waiting waiting negotiating finally the new government or at least the key ministers are announced. Yesterday around 8:00 p.m. Paris time. An hour and a half later, the leader of the uh Conservative Party, Brunoayo, who was just reappointed interior minister and who had spent an hour and a half with the prime minister, issues a tweet saying, “This is not acceptable. This is not the break that the prime minister had promised us major uh chaos.” This morning, Sebastian goes to the presidential palace, hence his resignation. uh it is accepted by Emanuel Mron. The Eliz issues a statement. The president has met with the prime minister accepted his resignation. So then the prime minister goes and addresses briefly the French people say you know the conditions were not right for me to keep trying. I’ve tried. There’s been too much partisanship, too much political calculations and so on. So I can’t continue on the job. I thought we would be able to pull it off but no. Bye-bye. And then uh people are s you know trying all the parties hold emergency uh meetings. Uh there’s possibility that there could be snap election that Emanuel M could try with a prime minister from the left and then something strange happens. The prime minister, the outgoing prime minister Sebastian goes back to the Eliz palace. Why? He’s already resigned. Why would he go back to say again bye-bye to the president? Uh no, clearly something was up. Then uh just a few minutes ago after going to the ed palu heads to the senate where he is meeting with the president of the senate Jer who is a member of the conservative party and a clear heavyweight. Why would he do this if he already had resigned? So clearly something was was up and we just found out as I said at 558 when the al pal saying huh uhuh he’s not actually totally resigned he’s going to try a last one last time to form a government and get the backing of all the parties and eventually survive in parliament crazy just very briefly since we are doing forensics over the last 24 hours still digesting it who stitched up who Because the head of the Conservatives, the outgoing in interior minister claims he didn’t know Bruno Lair would be named, right? I mean, did he not know? That’s what he says. And I mean, he went on on national television, Bruno. He tweeted yesterday night, you know, the trust is not there anymore. We cannot support the government. This at at 1 p.m. after a meeting with the heavyweight for his party, he said, you know, I met with the prime minister an hour and a half. He never told me that Bruno Lair was being appointed. So that’s a breach of trust. We cannot trust this person anymore. And this is, you know, not what the French are uh waiting. So we couldn’t uh accept this. And now we’re we’re learning uh that maybe Sebastian Luki will try to uh be able to stitch together government and uh possibly still with the conservative party because if he goes to see the head of the Senate J it’s probably to see if there’s a possibility and in the meantime what happened also and Bruno Lair publicly said that he was renouncing his position of outgoing defense minister Why would he say that he is resigning a position to which he was not really appointed? It’s probably to take away the irritance between Emanuel Mron Sebastian on one hand and the Conservative party on the other hand because they felt betrayed by the appointment of Bruno Lair as defense minister tried to figure out. It’s going to be very complicated, but it’s yet another uh crazy story after a crazy

France’s new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock. As a response, the President asked outgoing PM Lecornu to hold ‘final talks’ and attempt to solve the situation by Wednesday. Story by Marc Perelman.
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15 comments

  1. Ahahah it was a threat to socialist MPs that if they don’t support his government he’ll resign and Macron will call snap election. Now socialists know with polls they are going to loose more seats and RN might win so it’s a threat that if you don’t support us we will pass the governance to RN

  2. I mean, the Dallas TV series was more serious than this circus! It's so depressing to see that French politicians are jostling with the future of their citizens to save their a** Macron is in a corner, and should behave as any decent politican should (but he's obviulsy incapable of that).

  3. Normally I’d add some smart arse comment but man, best wishes, they’ll sort it out eventually hopefully but jesus, this is a great example of democracy being messy sometimes.

  6. Even the old fox François Bayrou could not come up with a budget plan…France / Macron can try another 10 new PMs and be the same outcome…the French people has no option but to work more and retire later to fill the deficit hole.

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