"How can one expect that all this will end well?"
"The impression we get is that the more alone he is, the more rigid he becomes."
Lecornu resigned shortly after unveiling a Cabinet opposed by a key coalition partner and was reappointed following days of intense negotiations. President Macron sees the move as a last opportunity to reinvigorate his second term through 2027 while lacking a majority in the National Assembly and facing criticism from within his own ranks. Party leaders who met with Macron expressed uncertainty about who could secure parliamentary support, and cautioned that another centrist prime minister risks being disavowed by the lower house. Successive minority governments have collapsed, prolonging paralysis as France confronts rising economic challenges and debt. At the end of the first quarter of 2025, public debt stood at 3.346 trillion euros.
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