\n French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government on Sunday, putting together a team under Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, who risks being toppled in a deeply divided parliament.\n <\/p>\n
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The new cabinet lineup was unveiled nearly a month after Lecornu’s appointment, with many key government members keeping their jobs.<\/p>\n
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Former finance minister Bruno Le Maire to comes back into government to head the defence ministry, replacing Lecornu, whom Macron appointed as prime minister last month, his seventh prime minister.<\/p>\n
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Roland Lescure was named to take over the economy portfolio, with the difficult task of delivering a budget plan.<\/p>\n
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Otherwise, the new government bears a striking similarity to the old one, with many ministers returning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bruno Retailleau remains interior minister, Elisabeth Borne returns as education minister and G\u00e9rald Darmanin stays as justice minister.<\/p>\n
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Catherine Vautrin and Rachida Dati retain their roles as health and culture minister respectively, while Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot stays as foreign minister and Agn\u00e8s Pannier-Runacher remains at the environment post.<\/p>\n
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The latest premier risks being toppled by the opposition in a deeply divided parliament despite his efforts to obtain cross-party support.<\/p>\n
France has been mired in deadlock since Macron gambled on snap elections in the middle of last year in the hopes of bolstering his authority.<\/p>\n
The move backfired, with voters electing a parliament fractured between three rival blocs.<\/p>\n
Lecornu’s two immediate predecessors, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and Michel Barnier, were ousted in a legislative standoff over France’s austerity budget.<\/p>\n
Lecornu is scheduled to deliver a general policy speech in parliament on Tuesday, and then must deliver the outline of the 2026 Budget.<\/p>\n
Several left-wing parties have threatened to put forward a no-confidence motion against Lecornu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government on Sunday, putting together a team under Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-476415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115322947037392651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476415","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=476415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}