Macron ‘demission’ may be the ultimate political scape artist – but his government is an unmitigated trainwreck.
It hasn’t been a month since failing President of France Emmanuel Macron appointed yet another ‘new’ Prime Minister for his minority government. It was his seventh one – the fifth one in less than two years.
Lame duck Macron, distrusted by 80% of voters, had appointed Édouard Philippe (2017–2020), Jean Castex (2020–2022), Élisabeth Borne (2022–2024), Gabriel Attal (2024), Michel Barnier (2024), François Bayrou (2024–2025) and finally Sebastien Lecornu (2025).
Le ‘petit Roi’ has dodged persistent calls from the left and from the right for his resignation and/or for the dissolution of the deadlocked Parliament and calling of snap elections.
Those calls will now sound even stronger after Lecornu and his government shockingly resigned today (6), mere HOURS after the ‘almost prime minister’ announced his cabinet line-up.
France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned less than 24 hours after unveiling his cabinet.
He was appointed less than a month ago on September 9th. pic.twitter.com/7lj3QK0uNI
— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 6, 2025
This is a MAJOR worsening of France’s political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.
Reuters reported:
“The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government. The far-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. The hard left France Unbowed said Macron himself must go.
Lecornu, who was Macron’s fifth prime minister in two years, stayed in the job for only 27 days. His government lasted 14 hours, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history at a time when parliament is deeply divided and the euro zone’s second-largest economy is struggling to put its finances in order.”
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns a month after taking charge. This is the shortest PM term since the start of the Fifth Republic. He resigned a few hours after unveiling his cabinet.
— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) October 6, 2025
Lecornu blamed the ‘egos’ of opposition politicians, while those inside his own minority coalition were ‘focusing on their own presidential ambitions’.
“‘You should always prefer your country to your party’, he said.”
We now wait to see how Macron will manage to escape yet another impossible situation.
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