Well, number five didn’t last long. Now French President Emmanuel Macron will be looking for Prime Minister #6.
France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned only a few weeks after his installation. Just yesterday he appointed the cabinet, and today he quits. With the parliamentary government collapsing repeatedly, and with serious economic and financial issues around the French government, things are increasingly spiraling.
FRANCE – […] Lecornu, France’s fifth PM in less than two years, had his work cut out to convince the country — and investors — that he can unite a fractious and divided parliament enough to get a 2026 budget over the line.
He was installed in early September against a backdrop of public unrest and dissatisfaction over the messy state of French affairs, after several successive governments failed to pass budgets detailing spending cuts and tax rises.
A former defense minister and longtime ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, Lecornu resigned just hours after naming a new cabinet on Sunday. The new cabinet, which saw most high-profile figures remain in their posts, was due to hold its first meeting on Monday.
Now, France has been plunged into a new political crisis which will put massive pressure on Macron, who has now installed three failed minority governments.
Lecornu was due to make a speech in front of parliament, the National Assembly, on Tuesday laying out his government’s roadmap.
Parties on both the left and right of the political spectrum in France were watching closely, as were investors and the European Commission in Brussels, to see how Lecornu planned to close a budget deficit of 5.8% in 2024. France’s debt pile amounted to 113% of GDP in 2024.
Both levels are far above EU rules demanding that individual members’ deficits should not exceed 3% of GDP, while their public debt should not surpass 60% of economic output. (read more)
…”I have a new job for you.” 😂🤣😂
Bruno Le Maire just resigned too, less than 24 hours after being appointed chief of the Ministry of Armed Forces. Change does not come easy, for France. But it looks like Édith Piaf is onstage, and the orchestra is playing “Non, je ne regrette rien.”
I can’t fathom why the French bother to elect a Prime Minister when the country’s run by EU anyway
I think the President appoints the Prime Minister?
In order to exit the EU, you first need to have a government at the national level that will at least hold a referendum, like David Cameron did, to at least temporarily cede power to the people, who then rise to the situation and take their country out. If you do not have at least a people-sympathetic faction in the government, then what happens is what happened in Ireland, when they rejected the EU in two referendums, but the Europhile swamp government in both cases told the people to vote again until they ‘got it right’ – and managed to overturn the results in both cases. [Search for: Ireland, Nice Referendum 2001 and the Revote in 2002; then Lisbon Referendum 2008 and the Revote in 2009]
And no, I ain’t a European, I’m just a smart Canadian
Seems like the only people that don’t care are the people that live in France. Have you seen Paris lately? WOW. She Sheila la FM
Too bad it wasn’t the president, Macron has been useless for protecting France and the French people.
Not to mention there were shenanigans to get him into office.
It seems long past the time when Macron should step down and call for new elections. However, Macron and the other EU elitists deeply dread what may replace him if he does that, and so Macron hangs on.
It also doesn’t help that the French people seem to want to keep their expensive government-provided benefit levels without having to pay for them.
Something is going to have to give, and the French way is usually bloody.
Macron’s term runs to 2027, don’t see reason why he would resign earlier.
If he had a thimble-ful of political sense, which of course he doesn’t, he would have “put two and two together” by now. These officials are resigning in droves because they see that they cannot satisfy what he is relentlessly putting in place. Eventually, people are simply going to stop making themselves candidates for the post.
Does the French National Assembly have any power – such as a “vote of no confidence” – to remove the President against his wishes?
This situation sounds like a good opportunity for a communist putsch.
Lecornu resigned after just 4 weeks in office?
That’s a quick surrender-even by French standards!
France is ungovernable.
Another benefit of unrestricted
immigration!
What will Europe look like, by 2055????
Every boy will be named
Mo-hamm-head.
Every street will have
a mosque.
And woe to those who do not bow to sharia!!
Aloha Snackbar!!!
No sympathy!
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”― Charles de Gaulle
Thanks for the laugh!
Bien, sacre bleu!
…and yet no matter how many times he loses an election Macron is still President of France!
The French are really stupid!
The French always elect the worse person, complain about them constantly, and then re-elect them again in the next election!
I lived in that country for 4 years, I have no sympathy for them at all. They get what they elected!
These national elections in the EU are increasingly meaningless. The countries are more and more governed by unelected EU bureaucrats that govern from Brussels.
Macron should come out in a Napoleon suit and declare himself Emperor.
No, that is more Zelensky……….:>}