{"id":494886,"date":"2025-10-13T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:03:11","slug":"frances-pm-lecornu-forms-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494886\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s PM Lecornu forms new government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2025-10-12T23:02:11+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News \u2013 Paris<\/p>\n<p>French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu unveiled his new<br \/>\ncabinet on Sunday, just two days after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/World\/Macron-reappoints-Lecornu-France-s-PM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reappointed<\/a> by President Emmanuel<br \/>\nMacron, concluding a week of political uncertainty in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup brings together senior civil servants and<br \/>\npoliticians, including several figures involved in Lecornu\u2019s attempt to form a<br \/>\ngovernment last week.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin, Budget Minister Am\u00e9lie de<br \/>\nMontchalin, and Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot\u2014all centrist officials who<br \/>\nhave held their posts since the start of the year\u2014will continue in their<br \/>\npositions.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Lescure, a close ally of Macron who had been<br \/>\ndesignated as economy and finance minister in Lecornu\u2019s first proposed<br \/>\ngovernment, also retains his role<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Un gouvernement de mission est nomm\u00e9 pour donner un budget \u00e0 la France avant la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e. Je remercie les femmes et les hommes qui s&#8217;engagent dans ce gouvernement en toute libert\u00e9 au-del\u00e0 des int\u00e9r\u00eats personnels et partisans. Une seule chose compte : l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat du pays.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 S\u00e9bastien Lecornu (@SebLecornu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SebLecornu\/status\/1977464958712500451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Lecornu described his decision to return as one<br \/>\nmade \u201cout of duty,\u201d emphasizing that the political crisis must end.<\/p>\n<p>He also reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring that France adopts<br \/>\na state budget before the end of the year, stressing that restoring public finances<br \/>\nremains his government\u2019s central objective.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-10-12T23:02:11+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News \u2013 Paris French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu unveiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[3674,7812,162909,2000,299,36,162907,162908,72102,12338],"class_list":{"0":"post-494886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-cabinet","10":"tag-emmanuel-macro","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-frances-pm-lecornu-forms-new-government","15":"tag-government-formation","16":"tag-political-crisis","17":"tag-sebastien-lecornu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115364167839528062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494886","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=494886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}