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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived two no-confidence votes, avoiding another government collapse and leaving the presidency. Emmanuel Macron Some relief before the big fight over the national budget.
French politicians in the 577-seat National Assembly rejected a motion of no confidence filed by the hard-left France Unbowed party. 271 votes were 18 short of the 289 required to topple the government. A second proposal by a far-right national rally also failed.
Thursday’s votes highlighted continued political uncertainty driven by a deeply fractured National Assembly.
Macron has been blamed for France’s political crisis since he called a surprise snap election last year, resulting in a deadlock in parliament where no party won a clear majority, putting the far-right in a crucial position to influence the stability of the government.
Lecornu, a 39-year-old centrist and close ally of Macron, Resigned and was then reappointed within a weekHe is the fifth Prime Minister of France in less than two years, succeeding his predecessor François Bayrou. He was ousted in a trust vote last month.
Earlier this week, Lecornu pledged Macron’s chief suspends implementation of 2023 pension reformWhich increases the retirement age from 62 to 64. That was enough to garner significant support from the Socialist Party, but hard-left and far-right opponents warned that the government’s victory on Thursday was a relief.
“The Lecornu government is on borrowed time. A fight over the budget has begun,” said Eric Coquerel, chairman of the French parliament’s powerful finance committee.
Lecornu now faces several weeks of negotiations in parliament to pass a reduced 2026 budget. Parliamentary debate on the budget, which must conclude before the end of the year, begins on Monday.
National Assembly President and Macron ally Yael Braun-Pivet said Thursday’s votes showed there was a majority in parliament to pass the budget.
“The French need to know that we are doing all this work … to give them the budget, because it is fundamental to the future of our country,” he said.
of france ongoing political crisis got into the skit Last week Lecornu unexpectedly announced his resign On Monday, will be reassigned till Friday only.
Lecornu resigned less than four weeks after taking office and only 14 hours after unveiling his minority government.
But within days, he was back on the job, reappointed by President Macron and tasked with forming a new cabinet and presenting a budget.
The political impasse stems from Macron’s shock decision to dissolve the National Assembly in June 2024. Snap elections produced a hung parliament, with no one able to win a majority in the 577-seat house.
The standoff has discouraged investors, angered voters and stymied France’s efforts to curb its ballooning deficit and public debt.
Without stable support, Macron’s governments have lurched from one crisis to another and collapsed after seeking support for unpopular spending cuts.