Sebastien Lecornu resigned to French president Emmanuel Macron, who accepted them. The Eliseo lets him know. ” There were no conditions to remain prime minister ”: Lecornu said after resigning.
Appointed on 9 September, Lecornu had been the subject of criticism by the opposition and the right after having revealed part of the composition of his government on Sunday evening. On Tuesday he should have pronounced his declaration of general policy to the assembly.
Leaving Matignon (the government of the government, editor’s note,) 27 days after his appointment, writes Le Figaro, Lecornu becomes the prime minister with the shortest mandate in history.
After the announcement of the resignation, Jordan Bardella (RN) asks for President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly. Even the head of the Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen, invokes a dissolution of the National Assembly. ” We are at the end of the journey. Tomorrow it will not be better (..) we are at the bottom of the joke, the farce lasted enough, “said the group leader of the RN deputies, thus asking for the return to early elections.
France Insoumise (LFI) asks for the ” immediate examination ” of Macron’s dismissal motion. ” After the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu, we ask for the immediate exam filed by 104 deputies for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron ”, writes in a message published on X the leader of the party of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Former French premier François Bayrou asks ” RestoBo ” in the face of a ” heavy and worrying “situation. Returning to his fiefdom of Pau, the former prime minister refuses to comment on the current political situation of France, invoking a “minimum reserve” to be maintained “in these circumstances as heavy as well as worrying”.
The Paris Stock Exchange slips after the Prime Minister’s resignation. The CAC 40 index yields 1.75% to 7,938 points Eo spread between Italy and France is negative for 4.2 points, with the annual Italian yield up 4.3 points at 3.55% and the French one of 8 points to 3.59%.
Among the most affected securities, Socgen banking bank (-5.61%), BNP (-4.45%) and agricultural Credit (-4.43%). Also under pressure the Axa insurance (-3.37%) and the Carrefour distribution giant (-2.6%).