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."
>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.
The French don't fuck around much. I like their style. Braver than Americans for sure.
>>1445359The French have had something like 10 or more different governments since they overthrew their monarchy like 200 years ago, their have had almost no political stability since then. Wouldn't be surprised if they decide to throw everything out again and start over
This is what they get for putting abortion in the constitution, time for a sixth Republic (and probably a seventh)
>>1445359Macron simply fucked up by calling a snap election in 2024. In his quest to stop the right, he lost 80 seats to the left, and now the country's paralyzed. They had five different governments in like one year.
>>1445762They already know what they have to do, they're just not willing to do it because its going to cut into the profits of everyone in the political class. Ban all immigrants from the country and revoke the 'French citizenship' from the Africans before removing them at gunpoint. That's all. That's the entire scope of what the Right wants and will consider it a total victory, its also the basis on which all the right-wing parties are garnering more and more support year on year.People tried living with the subhumans hoping that they could be civilized and learned that they can't. Now they're looking for a party willing to get rid of the subhumans. Its not complicated.
