Until now, Macron has battled to keep his key achievements untouched, notably his controversial pension reforms and long-running opposition to tax hikes, despite election defeats in 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have to backtrack on some things, on [canceling two] bank holidays,\u201d Macron said, referring to Bayrou\u2019s draft budget that included removing two bank holidays.<\/strong> \u201cWe must be able to find a compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n The man for the job<\/p>\n France\u2019s new prime minister may not be well known to the general public, but while still only 39 years old he has notched a few political successes in his eight years by Macron\u2019s side, honing skills that will be much needed in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n As armed forces minister, Lecornu managed to overcome divisions in a highly fractured parliament and get more than 400 lawmakers to pass his seven-year military programming budget in 2023, which saw increased spending for the military.<\/p>\n \u201cSome say it\u2019s easy to negotiate budget increases,\u201d said a close ally of the president. \u201cHe will tell you it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Unlike political grandees Bayrou and Barnier, Lecornu has spent the last years in the political trenches at the National Assembly and in local politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until now, Macron has battled to keep his key achievements untouched, notably his controversial pension reforms and long-running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[331,1194,6659,33,34,2000,299,36,37,29101,24402,38,1195,43,14614,5111,617,48,12338,1200,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-425264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-francois-bayrou","17":"tag-french-election-2027","18":"tag-french-political-crisis","19":"tag-french-politics","20":"tag-growth","21":"tag-macron","22":"tag-michel-barnier","23":"tag-parliament","24":"tag-pensions","25":"tag-rights","26":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","27":"tag-tax","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115206150038681687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}