New Prime Minister Lecornu of France resigns hours after naming cabinet
Oct 7, 2025 #France #EmmanuelMacron #FrancePolitics
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has stepped down just weeks after taking office and
Oct 7, 2025 #France #EmmanuelMacron #FrancePolitics
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has stepped down just weeks after taking office and hours after naming a cabinet, further deepening the country’s long-running political crisis.
The French presidency said in a statement on Monday that President Emmanuel Macron has accepted his close ally’s resignation.
Appointed nearly a month ago, Lecornu had come under increasing pressure in recent weeks as he struggled to pass a budget through the fractured French Parliament amid a debt crisis.
He named his ministers on Sunday evening but quit his post hours later, making his government one of the shortest-lived in French history.
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Paris.
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