French farce. Macron is still lit, but there is no way to extinguish this fire
The political crisis enveloping France goes down to the level of absurd theater. On Monday morning, President Emmanuel Macron accepted the dismissal of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecorn, who survived 27 days, as well as his ministers, who worked only 14 hours.
However, there was a crazy twist of action by the evening. Macron commissioned Lecorn to talk to the opposition to find a compromise on the crisis that shakes with French markets and euros. The French president gave Lecorn – his fifth prime minister from the re -election in 2022 – the last chance to build a “platform of action and stability” until Wednesday evening.
His decision was made at the end of the day, during which the President of French himself did not give any public comments. However, it was noticed how he walked alone along the shores of the Seine, apparently proud of the future of the country. The effect of his considerations is disappointing and from the very beginning he seems to be doomed to failurebecause the opposition parties threw themselves at Macron and his last move.
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– Let's go on. They are just trying to gain time, it's funny, it's a melodrama. Let's end with this – comments the Green Sandrine Rousseau.
“Trust has been lost,” says Agnes Evren, senator and spokeswoman for the Conservative Party of the Republican, which was part of the Lecorn government.
The French president had never seemed so isolated and so suffered beforewithout a good game card. And rarely the rate is so high for the French economy and even the entire European Union. Without cutting from the budget of billions of euros, on which French politicians still do not spend ready, there is a risk that international markets will throw themselves at the second largest economy in the EU.
Will Macron decide on another early election
If the President of French makes the last attempt to save the Lecorn government, it is because he has ended other options. If the outgoing prime minister fails to reach an agreement until Wednesday, Macron “faces his duties”, according to close advisers cited in the French media – what It may mean that it will announce their early elections.
French prime minister Sebastien Lecorn in Paris, France, October 6, 2025.Stephane Mahe / Pool / PAP
Even his supporters doubt whether he will be able to avoid early elections, which would weaken him even more. From Lecorn, the president “played his last card,” says a former French official, whom we admitted anonymity so that he could speak openly. After overthrowing the rule of EU veteran Michel Barnier and his main ally Francois Bayrou in the last 12 months, Macron appointed Lecorn as “the most loyal of loyalists”explains the official. And now there is no one with whom he would be on the way and who could become the next prime minister.
Various scenarios are currently discussed in political circles, including the appointment of a leftist prime minister, a conservative prime minister and even a technocratic prime minister. However, regardless of the political colors of the new head of the government, He will have to face the same parliamentary arithmetic and difficulties in negotiating the budget for the country.
“It's hard to imagine getting out of the crisis without voting,” said political scientist Jean-Yves Dormagen, who manages the Cluster public opinion Institute17. However, the early parliamentary elections would “weaken” Macron's headquarters, adds Dormagen. – they are conservative Republicans and [skrajnie prawicowe] National Union would be strengthened – he forecasts.
The extreme right and conservatives can get out of early choices with the majority. – But that doesn't mean they will work together – emphasizes Dormagen.
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, leaders of the National Union. Paris, September 2, 2025EPA / Christophe Petit Tesson / PAP
Nomination to the Lecorn office of the former Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, perceived as a person who allowed the spiral of debt to escape from control, disturbed the Republicans. By sacrificing, Le Maire announced after Monday's failure that he would not return to the government, opening a potential window to negotiations with conservatives.
But although the conservative camp has not yet ruled out the return to the government, At this point, they will probably demand something more than Le Maire's head in exchange for your support. “Even the departure of Bruno Le Maire will not change anything,” said Evren from Republicans.
“Anger and disappointment” in the Macron camp
It seems that the day of the French is approaching the last court's day because The last of his allies turns against “Jupiter”, who once ruled in French politics. Macron has long lost the support of his former protected ones, such as former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who said on Monday that he “no longer understands the decision” of his former mentor. But now he is abandoning more and more key supporters.
In Macron's camp there is “anger and disappointment”, says the French official cited above. “It's about more than Lecorn, because he didn't have much power, disappointment is aimed at Macron,” he said.
Others are even more critical. “The president wants chaos, wants early choices,” complains the Odrian official, Macron's political party. According to him, many deputies believe that the French president plays a dangerous game, In order to strengthen the far -right national union, so that in 2032 be able to return as an alternative.
After completing two terms in a row, Macron cannot compete in the next presidential election, but theoretically he could take part in the next ones. But it's still a long way. And in French politics a lot can happen overnight.
