{"id":483840,"date":"2025-10-08T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:34:19","slug":"frances-outgoing-prime-minister-expects-macron-to-name-replacement-in-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483840\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s outgoing prime minister expects Macron to name replacement in 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Sebastien Lecornu\u2019s assumption proves correct, the naming of a new prime minister would, at least for now, push France away from other options available to Mr Macron that could plunge the European Union\u2019s second-largest economy into even greater uncertainty.<\/p>\n

They include dissolving parliament\u2019s powerful lower house to trigger a new legislative election, which backfired on Mr Macron when he last did that, stacking the National Assembly with opponents of the French leader.<\/p>\n

\"FranceThen French defence minister Sebastien Lecornu, right, and France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron talk at the end of an address by the president to army leaders in Paris (Ludovic Marin\/AP)<\/p>\n

Mr Macron could also resign, although he has previously ruled out that option and Mr Lecornu cautioned against it.<\/p>\n

In an eagerly awaited interview with broadcaster France Televisions, the prime minister who resigned abruptly on Monday did not say who his replacement might be, but signalled that he expects that that will be the option that Mr Macron takes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the situation allows the president to name a prime minister in the next 48 hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, however, Mr Lecornu\u2019s interview left more questions than it answered about how Mr Macron intends to dig France out of the protracted political crisis that has gripped the country since the June 2024 dissolution of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

Without a stable majority in the 577-seat chamber, Mr Macron\u2019s minority governments have since lurched from crisis to crisis, with four prime ministers falling in quick succession.<\/p>\n

Mr Lecornu\u2019s resignation on Monday morning came just 14 hours after he had named a new cabinet the night before.<\/p>\n

\"FranceFrench socialist party secretary general Olivier Faure and Boris Vallaud, president of the socialist parliament members at the National Assembly, arrive for a meeting with outgoing prime minister Sebastien Lecornu (Christophe Ena\/AP)<\/p>\n

To buy more time to weigh his options, Mr Macron then asked the 39-year-old Mr Lecornu \u2014 a close ally who had previously served as defence minister \u2014 to make a last-ditch 48-hour effort to reach out again to parties in the National Assembly, to see whether he could build consensus behind France\u2019s next budget, an urgent national priority.<\/p>\n

Mr Lecornu said that those talks \u2014 except with Mr Macron\u2019s fiercest opponents on the far left and far right that refused negotiations \u2014 had made progress.<\/p>\n

He said that \u201can absolute majority\u201d of National Assembly lawmakers do not want parliament\u2019s lower house to be dissolved again and suggested that a budget might be attainable for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that a path is still possible. It is difficult,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Lecornu signalled that whoever Mr Macron chooses as the next prime minister, it will not be him again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not chasing the job,\u201d he said. \u201cMy mission is finished.\u201d<\/p>\n

The onus now shifts to Mr Macron and his next steps.<\/p>\n

He has remained conspicuously silent about the latest crisis, communicating publicly only in brief statements from his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Sebastien Lecornu\u2019s assumption proves correct, the naming of a new prime minister would, at least for now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-483840","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\/115340461145274345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483840","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=483840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}