FranceIs new Prime Minister Resigned on Monday after Less than a month in role,
39 -year -old Sebastian Lecornu met with President Emmanuel Macron, who accepted his resignation, the French President said in a statement.
Speaking on the footsteps of Hotel Day Matignon on Monday, he said: “You cannot be the Prime Minister when the conditions are not fulfilled.”
The resignation of Lecornu came just a day after the naming of his ministers, and Only after two weeks in the officeHis resignation makes it the smallest government in the fifth Republic.
A former Defense Minister, Lecornu, was due to making his general policy statement to the National Assembly on Tuesday.
he was appointed Prime Minister On 9 September, a day after a vote of faith, François topped François Bayoro as the head of the government.
Macron’s seventh presidential Prime Minister Lecornu only announced on Sunday that he had appointed his ministers, and was all set to hold his first meeting on Monday afternoon.
On the left and right, political opponents condemned the appointments of Lecornu. But on Monday, his resignation was unexpected and threatened to add France’s political crisis.
The outgoing Prime Minister said on Monday, “The conditions are no longer able to be able to use my tasks and the government to be able to go before the National Assembly tomorrow.”
He said that “These political parties never pretended to look at the change, not to use a deep breakdown, not to use Article 49.3. There was no longer an excuse for MPs to refuse to do their work.”
Article 49.3 gives the government the power to pass the bill without a vote from Parliament.
A few days ago, Lecornu promised the opposition parties and gave an important concession that it would not force through the law without a vote.
He branded it “break from past” in an attempt to an attempt to skeet support for a divisive 2026 spending scheme, which is expected to focus on public spending cuts.
Macron named Lecornu – a close aide – in an attempt to convince the political gridlock as Prime Minister last month without going far away from his Centrist Base.
Lecornu was tasked to immediately pass austerity measures and rule to govern to spirals in public expenses.
For weeks, he was consulting with political colleagues and opponents in an attempt to win support for the budget. But the French Parliament is divided on this issue.
Former Prime Minister Mitchell Barnier’s government collapsed last year, when he tried to implement Article 49.3 to force through a budget. Lecornu expected diplomacy – and promise not to try it again – will maintain their government.
After the announcement of the resignation of Lecornu, the National Rally President Jordan Bardela called Macron to dissolve the National Assembly.
The leader of the right -wing populist party wrote on X, “There can be no restored stability without returning to elections and without disintegration of the National Assembly.”
Similarly, Marine Le Penn asked to dissolve the National Assembly, the description of the resignation was a “intelligent step”.
La France Insaumis (LFI) group president Maithilde Panot wrote on X: “Lacornu resignation. 3 Prime Ministers defeated in less than a year. The countdown has started. Macron has started.”
LFI called the National Assembly to review Emmanuel Macron’s impeachment motion, Da Facto leader Jean-Leuk Melenchon said on Monday.
It was not clear how Macron would proceed. He first refused to resign in 2027 before his presidential end ended.
Lecornu tried to form a working government in the weeks, which is to form a working government against the backdrop of increased public finance and political instability, as difficult left and difficult rights continue to gain land.
His choice of ministers also attracted criticism from political spectrum, especially his decisions to bring back former Finance Minister Bruno Le Marare to serve in the Ministry of Defense.
The other prominent posts remained largely unchanged from the previous cabinet, as an internal minister with conservative Bruno Retylo, as in charge of policing and internal security, the remaining remained as the Jean-Noel Barrot Foreign Minister, and Jerald Dronin kept the Ministry of Justice.
In -depth fracture demanding consensus in the National Assembly, Lacornu announced that he would not appoint a particular constitutional power, which his predecessors were used to force the budget through Parliament without votes and would have to compromise with the Left and Rights instead.
French politics has been entangled in instability since July 2024, when a Snap election produced a Trik Parliament.
The Prime Ministers have since fought to get support to pass the bill. The government of Bayor was excluded last month when Parliament rejected its austerity bill to cut back at public expense.
The previous governments forced the annual budget without consulting Parliament. Lecornu had promised last week that law makers would be able to vote on the bill.
Following the announcement of Lacornu’s resignation, the Paris Stock Exchange fell by nearly two percent on Monday around 08:00 GMT.