The president of FranceEmmanuel Macron, established on Wednesday a 48-hour window to name a new prime minister. This Friday the deadline ends and the French look with concern at the Elysée Palace.
Macron wants to take advantage of until the last minute, before appointing a head of the Executive. For this reason, at 2:30 p.m. he is scheduled to meet with the leaders of the main political forces, with the exception of The Rebellious France y National Regroupingwho have not been invited. The meeting is expected to last several hours, since 17 leaders will attend, but there are several theories about when. The president will announce his alternative to the Government of Sébastien Lecornu.
Some believe that it will be before the meeting, and that this meeting in the Elysee Palace It will focus on explaining the president’s decision to the forces present. Others, however, are betting that the announcement will occur at the end of the day, after a final round of consultations.
Unlike other occasions, this time there is no pool of possible candidates for the Matignon Palace. On Thursday the name of Jean-Louis Borloobut the person involved himself denied it. Several options remain on the table; appoint a successor to Lecornu or a technical government. Another even more bizarre option is to rename Lecornu, however, in his last interview carried out on Wednesday for France 2 he declined the offer: “I am a monk-soldier. Tonight, my mission is over,” he stated.
Which option will Macron choose?
After the dissolution of the National Assembly, and as a consequence of the advancement of the legislative elections in 2024, the French Parliament became more fractured, plunging the country into complete ungovernability.
Since then, France has navigated the instabilityadding three prime ministers in the last year alone. Now, the country is wondering if it makes sense to appoint a fourth, who will most likely be censored again, as they have already made clear. Rebellious France and National Regrouping.
That is why the idea of a technical government is still in the air. For Lecornu this option remains viable, and in his last public interview, he expressed his conviction that the next cabinet should be “completely detached from presidential ambitions.” A clear shot at the former Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleauwhom many point to as the cause of this new political crisis.
It is government of technocrats would not include any political figure, but experts that will allow maintaining the stability of the country and approving the unpopular, but necessary, 2026 budgets. This executive would not be exempt from suffering a motion of censurealthough by not having a political flag it would be a more convincing alternative for the entire political arc.
Another alternative is a left-wing prime ministerbut the president has rejected it up to three times. This option, like the others, is not risk-free. The extreme right He has already said that he will censor any option that comes from Macron until he dissolves the National Assembly.
On the left, socialists, environmentalists and communists insist that the president appoint a left-wing prime minister. “If the Macronists do not want the government to be dissolved, I only have one solution: “cohabitation”warned Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists. In this case, Bernard Cazeneuve has been the candidate for prime minister who has been mentioned on other occasions and who has been repeatedly rejected by the Elysee Palace.
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