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Anonymous10/06/25, 10:04No.1445142French government quits just hours after being appointed, deepening political crisis
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-socialist-leader-will-vote-against-pm-lecornu-things-stand-2025-10-06/
PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France's political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.
The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government.
The far-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. The hard left France Unbowed said Macron himself must go.
Lecornu, who was Macron's fifth prime minister in two years, stayed in the job for only 27 days. His government lasted 14 hours, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history at a time when parliament is deeply divided and the euro zone's second-largest economy is struggling to put its finances in order.
After weeks of consultations with political parties across the board, Lecornu, a close ally of Macron, had appointed 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 either found it too right-wing or not sufficiently so, raising questions on how long it could last, with no group holding a majority in a fragmented parliament.
Macron's decision to call a snap parliamentary election last year deepened the crisis by producing an even more fragmented parliament.
But France could now possibly be headed for another snap parliamentary vote.
"I call on the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly ... this joke has gone on long enough, the farce must end," National Rally chief Marine Le Pen said after Lecornu resigned.
Mathilde Panot, of the hard left France Unbowed, said: "Lecornu resigns. 3 Prime Ministers defeated in less than a year. The countdown has begun. Macron must go."
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Anon10/06/25, 10:06No.1445143
>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 centralised president endowed with a strong majority in parliament, and to avoid the instability of the periods immediately before and after World War Two.
>Instead, Macron - who in his ascent to power in 2017 reshaped the political landscape - has found himself struggling with a fragmented parliament where the centre no longer holds the balance and the far-right and hard-left hold sway.
>France is not used to building coalitions and finding consensus.
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Anon10/07/25, 01:12No.1445359
The French don't fuck around much. I like their style. Braver than Americans for sure.
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Anon10/07/25, 23:13No.1445710
This is what they get for putting abortion in the constitution, time for a sixth Republic (and probably a seventh)