Lecornu, who resigned as prime minister last Monday only to be re-appointed on Friday evening, recognized that the presidential ambitions of heavyweight politicians were interfering with the political stability of the country.
As a result, he said, his future ministers will have to “commit to disconnect from presidential ambitions for 2027.”
The German model
This chaos, which has assumed a momentum of its own and shows no sign of abating, has some French politicians gazing wistfully at parliamentary systems where coalition deals are part of the political DNA.
Standing next to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in August, Macron himself implored lawmakers in his own country’s parliament to be a bit more like their German counterparts, who had just hammered out one of their ironclad Koalitionsvertrag ― a coalition deal between the center right and center left.
“On the other side of the Rhine, it appears that a conservative party and a socialist party are managing to work together,” the French president said. “That happens not so far from us, and it works, so I think it’s possible.”
Even Italy, which has so often been a political basket case, now looks more solid than France. That’s in large part due to the experience of its parties in striking coalition agreements such as that under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which has held up for nearly three years, according to Marc Lazar, a professor at Sciences Po university in Paris.