He had not been in office for a month and is already out: the Prime Minister of France, the macronist, has presented his resignation on Monday, in a surprising movement because just late yesterday. In a brief statement, the Elysee Palace has indicated that the president, Emmanuel Macron, has accepted his march.
The pressure came to Lecornu from within and from outside: the conservatives, the classic right on which the liberals have to support themselves, were complaining about the distribution of tasks and the opposition, from the left to the outrages, already announced a vote against the new team, with heavyweights of the Galo Center.
France is thus found in a pure chaos situation, with the third prime minister that falls (after Michel Barbier and François Bayrou) since the. The president, Macron, decided to go to the polls in an attempt to short -circuit the ultra -right of Marine Le Pen, who had just defeated in the European elections, but the play went wrong: today the National Assembly is atomized, unable to add majorities to legislate or make a government, with founded positions that prevent dialogue and flexibility Macron and his people), which has made Lecornu fall.
Again, the neighboring country looks at a complicated dilemma: to look for another consensus prime minister (which seems impossible with the current climate) or call legislative elections again. It is an unpublished scenario, of consequences impossible to foresee, with the street tremendously tired that no one gives them solutions and after successful calls against the planned cuts and the erosion of public services.
In search of consensus at the deeply fractured assembly, Lecornu had announced that it would not use a special constitutional power that their predecessors used to impose a budget in the Parliament without vote and that, on the other hand, it would seek a commitment to the legislators of left and right. There will be no possibility. He had until December 31 to present the accounts “and to serve France.” Until now, on the table was only, dead, the plan of his predecessor, Bayrou, which he raised to deal with public debt and the ankylosing of national production, but at the expense of touching public services, pensions and even holidays. So brutal that it cost him the position. And now we are again in the exit box.
The Republican step
After the apparent initial calm last night, after knowing the names of the government, which were already arriving late after the appointment of Lecornu (it was on September 9), the earthquake began: (LR), the party of the classic French right, warned that they were summoned to discuss whether they left the government today.
The head of LR, which is none other than Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau, launched a bomb just two hours after the French presidency formally communicated the new list of the Executive. In a message in his X account, Retailleau stressed that “the government’s composition does not reflect the promised break” by Lecornu and said that “given the political situation created by this announcement” convened for this morning a meeting of the strategic committee of his party. That will now have another meaning, of course.
The words of which he has been Minister of the Interior of the former Executive and that was confirmed in office this Sunday responds first to his requirement that there were more LR members in the cabinet, but also to the presence in that Bruno Cabinet Le Maire as the new head of Defense, a portfolio in which Lecornu replaces, EFE reports. Le Maire, who was Minister of Economy and Finance during the first seven years of the presidency of Macron, is a former member of the conservative formation, where many consider him a traitor and also make him largely responsible for the more than delicate situation of French public accounts due to that management.
Several LR members demonstrated in the last hours in favor of leaving the government, such as the president of the Altos region of France, Xavier Bertrand, which has been quite clear in an interview with the RTL station this morning. “If we want to recover confidence, if we want our country to stop sinking day after day -Bertrand indicated -we have to say clearly ‘now we do not participate in this waste, in this masquerade.” Such thick terms that the prime minister has not endured them.
From the macronist component of the Executive, the reaction to LR was usually angry, such as that of the Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, who in an interview with the France Inter station has insisted that he does not want to believe that “in a tragic situation” like the one who lives France a party lives with the tradition of the conservatives “can get rid of a blackmail” by charges. ”
In this way, it is not only that a punctual schism is raised, but that a definitive bankruptcy is expected in the confidence between the macronist liberals and the forever right of France. And without that clamp it is unfeasible, completely, move on. It was already difficult to attract to the moderate left, to the socialists, to reach minimum consensus. Now, if we stick to the hardness of these attacks, the bridges seem to be burned … although politics is political. At the moment, France nor has prime minister, has a cabinet unborn and a possibility of elections around the corner.
According to the updated survey of the Le Pen party, National Group, would today be the most voted force in the country, with 32% (on September 8). The new Popular Front, the sum of the lefts that won in the elections of a year and a half ago and that Macron has never given the option of governing, would stay with 25%. The liberal ensemble would achieve 15% of the votes and republicans, 12%.
