Macron, surprising decision regarding the new prime minister. The President of France does not want anticipated
Sebastien Lecornu and Emmanuel Macron. Photo credit: Benoit Tessier / AFP / Profimedia
The President of France Emmanuel Macron appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, renowned him after he resigned from office at the beginning of the week. Macron hopes that his close one will be able to achieve sufficient support in a deeply divided Parliament on the budget for 2026, informs Reuters.
Through Lecornu's new designation, Macron is exposed to the anger of political rivals, who claimed that the best solution of exit from the deepest political crisis of the last decades would have been convening some anticipated elections or the resignation of the president.
Lecornu's first task will be to send a budget project to Parliament until the end of Monday.
“I accept from the debt the mission entrusted to me by the President of the Republic to do everything possible to give France a budget until the end of the year and solve the problems of our daily lives.
Designation without the support of left -handed parties
Macron's announcement was made after a crisis meeting organized by French President Emmanuel Macron with political forces that did not lead to any results, according to the left, pushing the country even more in a few hours before the expected designation of a new prime minister, reports AFP, taken over by Agerpres.
“We have no response, except that the future prime minister, who should be appointed in the next few hours, will not be from our (left) political camp,” said the leader of Marine Tondelier, showing himself “sidelaged” after this meeting for almost two and a half hours.
“All this will end very badly,” she added, predicting a possible dissolution of the National Assembly (the Lower House of Parliament). There is no “clear response” from the head of state, Olivier Faure, the leader of the parliamentary group of the Socialists strengthened, who asked for the appointment of a prime minister in his camp.
In the event of the very unpopular pensions reform, a prerequisite placed by a large part of the left so as not to censor the future government, the head of state only proposed the “decaling in time” of the measure of retirement age, says Marine Tondelier.
“No novelty,” the communist Fabien Roussel also, warning: if the prime minister is from Emmanuel Macron's camp, “we will not be able to accept it.”
The leaders of the right -wing party (Les Republicins/LR), Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, came out first from Elysee, without making statements.
The great absentees from this meeting were the parties of the National Assembly (national rassemental /RN), of the far right, and France (LFI), of the radical left, which were not convened because, contrary to the others, both said they wanted to dissolve the Parliament, justified the entourage of Emmanuel Macron.
