On the first day of discussions with political forces to try to stabilize the country, the dismissal prime minister Sébastien Leconnu traced his two priorities: the approval of the state budget and social security, as well as the future of New Caledonia.
“I proposed that we focus on two priorities, which impose themselves on the entire political class. First, the approval of a budget for the state and social security. Secondly, the institutional future of New Caledon,” Leconnu wrote on social network X. “All present agreed with these two emergencies and expressed the desire to find a quick solution,” he added.
On Monday, October 6, Leconnu resigned after just 27 days at the head of the government and a few hours after he announced the composition of his executive. Nevertheless, he accepted President Emmanuel Macron’s challenge to try to try out last -minute discussions to avoid deepening the political crisis in France.
Since arriving in power in 2017, Macron has had seven prime ministers, five of which since the beginning of the second term, with Leconnu being the least lasting in the entire V Republic, that is, since 1958.
Having summoned parties with parliamentary seat and also the presidents of the two chambers of the French Parliament, the dismissal prime minister explained in the same message that “on budgetary urgency, we discuss the parameters of a possible commitment to opposition.” The budget issue had already been the source of the fall of its predecessor, François Bayrou.
Leconnu has until the end of Wednesday, 8, to try to find a way out of the crisis, otherwise Macron has said he will “take over his responsibilities.”
In opposition, appeals multiply, on the one hand, to the convening of new legislative elections, on the other, to the dismissal of Macron himself, whose mandate only ends in 2027.
For now, The national regrouping (former far-right-wing national) has already rejected Leconnu’s invitation. Both party leader Jordan Bardella and his parliamentary leader and bow figure Marine Le Pen have said they won’t go to matignon.
On the right, the leader of The Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, did not close the door to the government, “with one condition: it is a government that I would call cohabitation.” For him, “today there are only two solutions to move forward: a cohabitation government or dissolution.”
On the left, an understanding seems difficult, considering that the unsubmissive France and Ecologists gathered on the one hand, without the socialists and the communists who, in turn, met at another time with ecologists.
In the Macronist field, some voices begin to move away from the president, thinking of 2027. On Monday night Gabriel Attal to go to the TF1Dizer night newspaper that “I no longer understand the decisions” of Macron, This morning, another former prime minister of the centrist, Édouard Philippe, to argue that he should summon some “early presidential” After appointing a prime minister to approve the budget.