{"id":481793,"date":"2025-10-08T02:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:24:11","slug":"macron-urged-to-quit-to-end-frances-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481793\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron urged to quit to end France\u2019s political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday under pressure even from allies to find a rapid solution to France\u2019s political deadlock, after his first prime minister and one-time ally urged him to resign for the sake of the country.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron, president since 2017, has been battling the worst domestic political crisis of his presidency after the shock resignation on Monday of his seventh prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron gave Lecornu until Wednesday evening to thrash out a compromise for a sustainable coalition government but it is far from certain these efforts can succeed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If this fails, one option is for Macron to dissolve parliament and hold snap legislative elections in the hope of having a more workable make-up in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron on Tuesday evening held talks with the speakers of both the upper and lower houses of parliament, said an aide, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The purpose of the separate meetings was not made clear but the president is obliged to consult both speakers if new elections are planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday under pressure even from allies to find a rapid solution to France\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[130602,33184,2000,299,36,42,43156,44,159815,147899,31930,336,12338,33790,2581],"class_list":{"0":"post-481793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-aurore-berge","9":"tag-edouard-philippe","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-jordan-bardella","14":"tag-le-parisien","15":"tag-marine-le-pen","16":"tag-national-rally-party","17":"tag-olivier-faure","18":"tag-raphael-glucksmann","19":"tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","20":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","21":"tag-socialist-party","22":"tag-us-president-donald-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115336174870904800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481793","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=481793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}