{"id":483839,"date":"2025-10-08T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:33:14","slug":"macron-could-nominate-new-french-prime-minister-in-next-48-hours-says-outgoing-lecornu-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483839\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron could nominate new French prime minister in next 48 hours, says outgoing Lecornu &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Once again, the French are left in political agonypublished at 21:10 BST<\/p>\n<p>21:10 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/088292f4-662f-422c-9a18-45c000bc6829.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Hugh Schofield<\/strong><br \/>Paris Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron (R), welcomed by French Minister of Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, walks on the tarmac after disembarking from an Airbus A400M military plane for a visit at the 55th International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, 20 June 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/893f9534-2c55-459e-8546-c0902e345f9c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2119\" height=\"1192\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPAImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">S\u00e9bastien Lecornu (L) pictured next to French President Emmanuel Macron (R)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">S\u00e9bastien Lecornu is known as a man of few words. It means that interlocutors can sometimes be left guessing what he is driving at. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The French public will certainly have felt that impression tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The one positive that can be stated is there will be no immediate announcement of an early election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was thought to be on the cards if Lecornu decided there was not sufficient common ground for forming a new government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, apparently, Lecornu thinks there is enough common ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What that ground is; who will make what compromise; who might be the prime minister; and who might be in the new government \u2013 that he was not in a position to say. After all, as he said more than once, he has resigned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What would he know? He was just doing a last job for the president, and it was up to Macron to make all the announcements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, the French are left in agony once again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You want clarity?  Here\u2019s some mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once again, the French are left in political agonypublished at 21:10 BST 21:10 BST Hugh SchofieldParis Correspondent Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-483839","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\/115340457188948090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483839","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=483839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}