Macron\u2019s office said Lecornu had presented three conclusions: A majority of lawmakers are against holding snap elections; a \u201cplatform of stability\u201d exists, although the Elys\u00e9e did not elaborate on what that meant; and a path forward exists to adopt a budget before the end of the year.<\/p>\n
In his interview, Lecornu said that a \u201cnarrow plurality\u201d is ready to find common ground on a budget for 2026, which he previously said must significantly rein in a budget deficit projected to come in at 5.4 percent of gross domestic product this year. The PM had earlier Wednesday signaled the possibility of\u00a0softening France\u2019s deficit reduction to 5 percent of GDP\u00a0from 4.7 percent, the figure Lecornu initially put forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What comes next is entirely up to Macron.<\/p>\n
If he chooses not to dissolve the National Assembly,\u00a0Macron will need to pick a new prime minister who will face the same challenge that doomed Lecornu\u2019s two predecessors: passing a budget without a majority in parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The president could opt for a center-left politician from the Socialist Party, who would then need to work with other left-wing lawmakers as well as centrists to form a majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But this would likely come at a cost for Macron, who would see some of his landmark policies \u2014 including a law that raised the minimum retirement age for most workers\u00a0\u2014 come under attack from a left-wing government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s office said Lecornu had presented three conclusions: A majority of lawmakers are against holding snap elections; a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8703,156,115831,50,45428,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-287616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-french-political-crisis","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}