French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister, just four days after Lecornu announced his resignation, reports Baltimore Chronicle citing France 24 and RFI.
On October 10, Macron held a series of meetings with leaders of political parties represented in the National Assembly. However, he excluded members of the far-right National Rally and the left-wing Unsubmissive France from the talks. According to the president’s entourage, these parties were not invited to the Élysée Palace because they had previously expressed their intention to push for the dissolution of parliament.
Following the consultations, Laurent Panifous, head of the small independent parliamentary group LIOT, told reporters that the president would soon announce the name of the next prime minister.
Marine Tondelier, secretary-general of the Green Party (Les Écologistes), noted after the meeting that the next head of government would not represent the left. She said she left the Élysée Palace “without any answers.” Olivier Faure, leader of the Socialist Party, expressed similar disappointment, saying his group did not seek to dissolve parliament but was “not afraid of it either.”
Meanwhile, two senior figures from the center-right Republicans, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, refrained from making any public comments after meeting the president.
Later in the evening, it was officially announced that Macron decided to keep Lecornu as prime minister. Lecornu stated that he viewed the reappointment as “a mission entrusted by the president — to do everything possible to ensure France has a budget by the end of the year and to address the daily problems of its citizens.”
The prime minister must submit the draft state budget to parliament by Monday, October 13. If the National Assembly fails to reach a consensus, emergency measures will have to be implemented to guarantee the continued operation of public services.
Earlier we wrote that Sébastien Lecornu resigns as French Prime Minister after less than a month in office.
