President Emmanuel Macron's office announced that new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on the morning of Monday, October 6, hours after his new government had been formed. Lecornu's resignation, making him the shortest-lived prime minister in recent French history, plunges the country into political uncertainty again.
On Sunday evening, almost four weeks after his appointment by Macron, Lecornu had unveiled his cabinet, which was almost identical to that of his fallen predecessor, François Bayrou. But cracks were apparent right away, with members of several parties within the governing coalition expressing doubts and criticism about the lack of change.
Jordan Bardella, the president of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), immediately called for snap elections. "There can be no return to stability without a return to the polls and without the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale," he insisted.
Mathilde Panot, a prominent member of the hard-left La France Insoumise party, called for Macron's resignation in a post on X following Lecornu's resignation. "The countdown has begun. Macron must go," she said.
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