Forty -eight hours to find a way out. After the shock resignation of Sébastien Lecornu who precipitated France in an unprecedented political chaos, President Emmanuel Macron entrusts the premier resigning an almost impossible mission. In charge of conducting him to conduct “latest negotiations” within “Wednesday evening” to reach a common “platform” for the “stability of the country”.
In case of failure, the president on the corner says he is ready to “take on his responsibilities”. Among the options, the appointment of a new premier, perhaps on the left as invoked by the Socialist Party, a new dissolution of the Nationale Assemblée after what he led to the early elections in the summer of 2024 or improbable presidential resignation claimed to by the radical gauche of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (the Francesoumise France).
The images of Macron Solo, dressed in dark, walking along the Seine, after Lecornu’s resignation were relaunched by the media from all over the world. They illustrate the loneliness of a president placed in front of one of the most difficult rebus in recent history of the Alps.
Just twelve hours from the formation of the government, the newly-premier Sébastien Lecornu, appointed a month ago to try to form an executive and approve the financial maneuver 2026, showed up in the morning at the Elysée to resign. An unprecedented political earthquake, with an executive born in the evening and died the next morning: just over twelve hours, the shortest in the history of the fifth republic.
“There were no conditions to remain prime minister,” Lecornu admitted after resignation, immediately welcomed by Macron. At the end of the day, the president, however, made it known that he had granted the resigned premier until Wednesday evening to try a last chance while the opposition arises.
“We are at the end of the journey, the farce lasted enough”, attacks the head of the Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen, who together with his Delfino and Secretary of the party, Jordan Bardella, returns to invoke the dissolution of the Parliament and the return to the polls. True needle of scales in this unprecedented crisis that makes the bags react and sink into uncertainty the second economy of the euro area have been the Républicains (LR), the party of the neo -ograist right that supported the government team so far.
“We could not offer a last lap of the track” to the Macronians, said vice-president LR, Francois-Xavier Bellamy. According to several sources in Paris, the surprise return of Bruno Le Maire as Minister of Defense after the seven years spent on the economy (2007-2024) infuriated the field lr. In turn, former Republican passed since 2017 with Macron, Le Maire – who in the evening said he was ready to give up the assignment in order to give a government to the country – is unveiled to many of his old companions. Among other things, he has been accused of having heavy responsibilities, as a former Burcy owner, in the drift of the public accounts and the downgrade of Fitch.
To irritate the Républicains would also be the large space reserved for Renaissance (Macron’s party) in the new team (10 ministers against 4 LR), in contradiction with that spirit of breakage invoked by Lecornu himself on the day of his settlement in Matignon. Furious for the new executive, the Minister of the Interior (among the reconfirmed) and President LR, Bruno Retailleau, had convened a strategic advice of the Républicains for 11 this morning to evaluate a possible exit from the unborn child government. A risk that has evidently lecornu induced to act in advance by announcing the resignation. Interviewed by TF1, Retailleau accused Lecornu of having “hidden the appointment of Le Maire” as Minister of the Armed Forces, which – he added – poses “a problem of trust”.
“I don’t attack the armchair – he assured -. On the contrary, I want to serve my country. But not to any condition ». The bordered of Bardella arrived in a close tour: “I Républicains – he wrote on X – now try to disguise themselves as opponents”, perhaps to get more votes in the presidential elections of 2027. Appointed on September 9, Lecornu had convened the first council of ministers with the new executive for Monday afternoon. But the story has gone differently. Now he has 48 hours to find a square.