{"id":484012,"date":"2025-10-08T22:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484012\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:05:10","slug":"macron-to-name-new-prime-minister-amid-political-storm-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484012\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron to name new prime minister amid political storm in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> said Wednesday that he will name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, for now rejecting other options in the face of a political storm.<\/p>\n

The naming of a replacement for outgoing Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, who abruptly resigned on Monday<\/a>, will \u2014 at least for now \u2014 move France away from the likelihood of snap legislative elections, another possibility that is available to the French leader but which could plunge the European Union\u2019s second-largest economy into even greater uncertainty<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The announcement from Macron\u2019s office of a prime ministerial appointment before the weekend came after Lecornu \u2014 at the president\u2019s request \u2014 spent the two days after his resignation taking the temperature in Parliament, to see whether there was enough support in the powerful but fractured lower house to form a new government.<\/p>\n

Lecornu concluded that there was, even though Macron\u2019s camp and its allies don\u2019t have a majority in the National Assembly and the French leader\u2019s prime ministerial appointments, leading minority governments, have tumbled one after another in quick succession over the past year. <\/p>\n

The presidential statement said that in the wake of his talks with political parties, Lecornu determined that a majority of National Assembly lawmakers don\u2019t want snap legislative elections and that it\u2019s \u201cpossible\u201d that they could agree on a 2026 budget for France by the end of the year. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn this basis, the president of the Republic will name a prime minister within 48 hours,\u201d the statement said, without a hint of who Macron will choose. <\/p>\n

Lecornu signaled that it won\u2019t be him again. <\/p>\n

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

In an interview with broadcaster France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions before Macron\u2019s announcement, the outgoing prime minister said his 48 hours of talks with all parties except those on the far left and far right that refused negotiations had made progress and that \u201can absolute majority\u201d of lawmakers don\u2019t for now see a need to dissolve the National Assembly, a move that backfired on Macron when he last did that.<\/p>\n

Lecornu said Macron\u2019s centrist camp and its allies in the Parliament, plus some opposition parties, could still come together to form a new government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a majority that can govern,\u201d Lecornu said. \u201cI feel that a path is still possible. It is difficult.\u201d <\/p>\n

The result from the elections triggered by Macron\u2019s stunning National Assembly dissolution in June 2024 was a hung Parliament. No one group has enough lawmakers in the 577-seat chamber to form a government alone. The ensuing political deadlock has rattled investors, infuriated many voters and frustrated efforts to agree on a budget to tackle France\u2019s mounting state deficit and damaging debts.<\/p>\n

Without a stable majority, Macron\u2019s minority governments have lurched from crisis to crisis, collapsing as they sought lawmakers\u2019 support for unpopular cuts to public spending. Lecornu\u2019s resignation on Monday morning came just 14 hours after he\u2019d named a new Cabinet the night before, with his fragile coalition shattering in the face of political and personal rivalries.<\/p>\n

To buy more time to weigh his options, Macron then asked the 39-year-old Lecornu \u2014 a close ally who had previously served as defense minister \u2014 to reach out again to parties in the National Assembly, to try to build consensus behind France\u2019s next budget, an urgent national priority. <\/p>\n

Lecornu said the political parties he consulted all feel that agreement on a 2026 budget is a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all said that we must not take the risk of not having a budget on the 31st of December,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Petrequin reported from London. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that he will name a new prime minister in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[51,33,34,2000,299,36,4179,12267,285,160344,12338,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-484012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-government-budgets","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-samuel-petrequin","18":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115340818812510990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484012","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=484012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}