{"id":473042,"date":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/473042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","slug":"french-pm-tries-to-save-skin-by-ruling-out-use-of-constitutional-backdoor-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/473042\/","title":{"rendered":"French PM tries to save skin by ruling out use of constitutional backdoor \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boris Vallaud, a key Socialist Party leader, reacted with skepticism on FranceInfo immediately after the announcement and noted that Lecornu had not renounced other constitutional provisions that allow the government to interrupt legislative debates.<\/p>\n

The Socialists aren\u2019t the only ones in need of convincing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Lecornu had hoped to form a government with the same minority coalition \u2014 made up of parties supporting President Emmanuel Macron and the conservative Les R\u00e9publicains \u2014 that backed his two fallen predecessors, Barnier and the centrist Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou.<\/p>\n

However, Les R\u00e9publicains president and outgoing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau cast doubt on his party’s participation in Lecornu\u2019s government, which the prime minister is expected to form in the coming days. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this stage, the participation of the right wing in the government is by no means certain,\u201d Retailleau told conservative daily Le Figaro<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Les R\u00e9publicains had submitted a coalition agreement to Lecornu including requests to toughen France\u2019s immigration policy. The proposed agreement, first reported by POLITICO<\/a>, included Lecornu giving Retailleau \u2014 as interior minister \u2014 full control over visa issuance and limiting access to medical care for undocumented people.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boris Vallaud, a key Socialist Party leader, reacted with skepticism on FranceInfo immediately after the announcement and noted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1194,34,2000,299,36,24402,38,5111,617,12338],"class_list":{"0":"post-473042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-french-political-crisis","14":"tag-french-politics","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-pensions","17":"tag-sebastien-lecornu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115314699331445809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473042","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=473042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}