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<\/p>\nFrance’s prime minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned – after less than a month in the job.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted his resignation, the Elysee Palace said.<\/p>\n
Mr Lecornu’s resignation comes just hours after he appointed his cabinet – and after political rivals threatened to topple his government.<\/p>\n
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\n Sebastien Lecornu and Emmanuel Macron.
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He announced on Sunday that he had appointed his ministers, with the new cabinet set to hold its first meeting on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
But the line-up had angered political allies and opponents alike, who either criticised that it was too right-wing or not right-wing enough, raising questions over how long it could last in a fragmented parliament where no party holds a majority.<\/p>\n
In his resignation speech, Mr Lecornu said political parties in France were all behaving as if they had their own majority in parliament.<\/p>\n
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\n Sebastien Lecornu arrives to deliver a statement.
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Mr Lecornu, 39, an ally of Mr Macron, was the seventh prime minister appointed by the president – and the fifth in just two years.<\/p>\n
His sudden resignation on Monday morning after just 27 days in office was unexpected and unprecedented, and resulted in more turmoil amid France’s political crisis.<\/p>\n
Since Mr Macron was re-elected in 2022, the parliament has been unstable, and the president’s decision to call a snap election last year further deepened the crisis by producing an even more fragmented parliament.<\/p>\n
After Mr Lecornu resigned, Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of far-left France Unbowed, said his party was calling for the impeachment of Mr Macron, while the far-right National Rally immediately urged Mr Macron to call another snap election or resign.<\/p>\n
“There can be no return to stability without a return to the polls and the dissolution of the national assembly,” National Rally leader Jordan Bardella said.<\/p>\n
\n Macron under pressure to call parliamentary elections – and stand down himself\n <\/p>\n
This resignation has come kind of completely out of the blue – and there doesn’t seem to be an obvious reason for it.<\/p>\n
Only 13 hours ago, Lecornu tweeted that he had successfully formed a new government and spoke about the challenges facing that government to pass a much-needed budget, something that his predecessors failed to do.<\/p>\n
Now, early this morning, his resignation was handed down and accepted by President Emmanuel Macron, leaving Macron in a real crisis because he is going through prime ministers, very quickly, too quickly, really, for his position to remain stable for much longer. <\/p>\n
You will now get some very strong calls, and they are becoming quite credible calls, from Marine Le Pen’s party National Rally, to hold parliamentary elections. <\/p>\n
They think that if parliamentary elections were held, then they would do very well in them, and all of the polls suggest that would be the case.<\/p>\n
And I think you will also find that they have sympathy for that position from the socialists and those on the far left as well. <\/p>\n
So Macron is now going to be under immense pressure to call parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n
I think he will also come under pressure to stand down himself, because every time he appoints a new prime minister, it fails.<\/p>\n
It seems as though he is running out of room and time to keep that tactic, because it is a tactic that is not working for him.<\/p>\n
Mr Lecornu’s resignation also resulted in French stocks and the euro dropping sharply.<\/p>\n
French banks were leading a financial market sell-off, with the Societe Generale down by more than 6% on the CAC 40 in the moments after the announcement, while BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole were also sharply lower.<\/p>\n
The index was 1.5% in the red.<\/p>\n
The euro also fell back against sterling and the dollar, while French government borrowing costs, reflected on bond markets, hit levels last seen almost a month ago when the country was back in the same political stalemate.<\/p>\n
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