Sébastien Lecornu’s technique of compromise put to the check of the institutional disaster | EUROtoday

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Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, during the government questions session, at the National Assembly, in Paris, December 9, 2025.

There are indicators which might be unmistakable. The chronicity of governmental instability (4 governments in a single 12 months, 5 prime ministers since 2022 and almost 100 appointed ministers), the stagnation of public insurance policies, the enlargement of citizen mistrust in the direction of the ruling elites, the revival of anti-parliamentarism, the domination of the far proper in opinion surveys… The dissolution of the National Assembly, determined by Emmanuel Macron on June 9, 2024, continues to behave because the detonator of a deep disaster of political illustration in France.

How to control on this quickly decomposing political panorama? By speeding to the rostrum of the Palais-Bourbon for his common coverage declaration, on October 14, 2025, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, believes that this era of unprecedented instability below the Ve Republic is neither extra nor lower than a “parliamentary crisis”. The tenant of Matignon rejects the concept that the absence of a majority within the National Assembly may in the end result in a regime disaster.

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