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Paris, Oct 6 (Reuters)-France’s New Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and His Government Resignéd on Monday, Hours After Lecornu Announced His Cabinet Line-Up, Making It The Shorttet-Lived Administration in Modern French History and Deepening the Country’s Political Crisis.

The UNXPECTED REEDIGNATION CAME After Allies and FOES ALIKE THREATENED TO TOPPLE THE NEW GOVERNMENT, WHICH LECORNU SAID MEANT HE COULD NOT DO MOB. His Shock Departure Drove Stocks and the Euro Sharly Lower.

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu Arrives to Delive A Stament at The Hotel Matignon in Paris, on Oct. 3, 2025.
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu Arrives to Delive A Stament at The Hotel Matignon in Paris, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Everyone is now watch to listen to What President Emmanuel Macron, Who Has Not Yet Publicly commented, plans to do Next. Opposition Parted Him to ReSIGN, or name a snap parliamentary election, saying there was no different approach out of the disaster. It was unclear when the centrist President Would Speak.

What’s Next?

In Past Months, Macron, Whose Mandate Runs Until May 2027, Has Repeatedly Ruled Out Stepping Down or Calling Elections. He may attempt to additional one more prime minister, who may very well be a polician or a technocrat, or he may theoretically ask lecornu to a brand new authorities.

Lecornu, Who was Macron’s Fifth Prime Minister in Two Years, Stayed within the Job for Only 27 Days. HIS GOVERNMENT LASTED Just 14 Hours, Highlighting Divisions within the French Parliament AS The Euro Zone’s Second-Largest Economy Struggles to place its funds so as.

Then French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Right, and France's President Emmanuel Macron Talk at the end of an Address by the President to Army Leaders in Paris on July 13, 2025.
Then French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Right, and France’s President Emmanuel Macron Talk on the finish of an Address by the President to Army Leaders in Paris on July 13, 2025.

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French Politics has been incressingly unstable since macron’s reelection in 2022 for need of any social gathering or grouping holding a parliamentary majoriter. Macron’s Decision to name a snap parliamentary election final 12 months deepened the disaster by producing an much more fragmented parliament.

Opposition Want Snap Elections

The Immediately Zeroed in On Macron opposition, Urging Him to Call New Snap Parliamentary Elections or Leater.

“This joke has gone on long enough, the farce must end,” Far-Right National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen Said.

The President of Rally National Parliamentary Group Marine Le Pen Addresses The Press Upon Her Arrival at Her Party's Headquarters in Paris, on Oct. 6, 2025.
The President of Rally National Parliamentary Group Marine Le Pen Addresses The Press Upon Her Arrival at Her Party’s Headquarters in Paris, on Oct. 6, 2025.

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Mathilde Panot, of the Hard-Left France Unbowed, Said: “The Countdown has been. Macron Must Go.”

Two Opinion Polls from Last Month Show that within the occasion of snap parliamentary elections, voters would most likely voting giant as they did final 12 months, with the rn forward, and the left second, adopted by the Center-Right and Conservatives.

Parliament WOULD REMAIN DIVIDED IN THREE BLOCS, with none holding a Majority. Parliamentary elections are held in 577 constituencies, and in lots of containers in Two Rounds, and their final result might be onerous to foretell.

An ifop ballot Last Month Saw Le Pen or Rn President Jordan Bardella Well forward within the First Round of A Presidential Election, however it didn’t surveillance the essential second spherical.

Back to Elections?

David Lisnard, of the conservative republicans, was additionally amongst those that camed on macron to depart.

The Republicans’ Party Chief Bruno Retailleau, The Outgoing Interior Minister, Whose Tweet Lashing Out on the Cabinet Line-Up on Sunday Was Key within the Latest Crisis, was More Cautious, Saying the Ball was in Macron’s Camp and He should Speak Soon.

“If there is a deadlock, then we will have to return to the voting booth. But i think there are other ways before it comes to that,” he instructed tf1 television.

To clarify why he couldn’t go ahead and strike compromises with rival events, lecornu blamed the “egos” of opposition politicians who rigidly caught to their manifestos, While Those inside his minority coalition had been specializing in their preidential ambitions. Retaille is considered contemplating a bid for President.

New Line-Up Angered Opponents Cabinet

On the Streets of Paris, Many Were Shocked on the Worsening Instabilities.

“I’m never seen this,” Said 79-Year-Old Pensioner Gerard Duseteu. “I’m Almost Ashamed, Even, to be French.”

Some Said Fresh Elections Seemed Like The Only Option. “We cannot continues like this,” Said 20-Year-Old Political Sciences Student Marius Loyer.

After Weeks of Consultations With Political Parties Across The Board, Lecornu, A Close Ally of Macron, Had Suppoired His Ministers on Sunday and They Had Been Set to Hold Their First Meeting on Monday afternoon.

But the new Cabinet Line-Up Had Angered Opponents and Allies Alike, who eith Found It Too Right-Wing or Not enough. Lecornu Handed His Re -Macron, Who Accepted It.

French Stocks and Euro Fall

Paris’ $ 3 Trillion CAC 40.Fchifell by as Much as 2.1% Before Recovering Some Ground to Trade Down 1.4% On the Day, Still Making It The Worst-Performing Major Index in Europe, As Banking Shares Under Heavy Fire.

The Euro EUR = EBS SLID 0.4% To $ 1.1698.

Lecornu’s Two predecessors Were B3 France‘S Public Spending at a time when ratings agencies and investors are watching closely.

France‘S debt has risen to 113.9% of large domestic product, while the deficit was nearly double the European union’s 3% limit last year.

Deep Instabilities

France has rarely suffered a political crisis so Deep since the creation in 1958 of the Fifth Republic, the Current System of Government.

The 1958 Constitution was designed to ensure stable governance by creating a powerful and highly centralized President Endowed with a strong majority in parliament, and to avoid pastability.

Instead, Macron – Who in His Ascent to Power in 2017 Reshaped the Political Landscape – Has Found Himself Struggling Sale 2022 with a fragmented parliament.

France will not be used to construct coalitions and discovering consensus.

(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Michel Rose, Sudip Kar-Gupta, Inti Landauro, Alessandro Parodi, Richard Lough, Johnny Cotton, Amanda Cooper, Dominique Vidalon; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Gareth Jones, Sharon Singleton)

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