Déjà vu in France as political chaos returns, but there is a difference
On Monday, October 6, 2025, the National Assembly building in Paris, France. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday morning just a day after President Emmanuel Macron named a wide -criticized new cabinet. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg through Getty Images
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When the resignation of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu exploded on Monday morning, journalists tried to contact the government spokesman to clarify which ministers were actually responsible: Lecornu only nominated the night before or before the reorganization?
The French political situation is now unseen and unique and unique (and in the meantime, the answer: Sunday night will look at the nomination of a new PM and the government until the election.
Thirteen hours after the announcement of the new government’s cabinet, and only 27 days later, Lecornu resigned to French President Emmanuel Macron.
After July 2024, political disintegration caused this instability, and political blocks emerged in two votes that moved away from the absolute majority.
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who sent his government’s resignation to the French President this morning, reacted after a statement at Hotel Matignon in Paris on 6 October 2025.
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This led Macron to establish minority governments based on precarious pacts and agreement and ultimately failed.
On the one hand, now there is a Déjà vu atmosphere in France: the next PM will be the sixth of Macron in less than two years.
On the other hand, the current crisis is different: the Lecornu government was not overthrown by the opposition, such as the pioneer Michel Barnier or Francois Bayrou – they were allies that caused his collapse.
Allied Döner
At his address to announce his decision to resign on Monday morning, Lecornu accused the political parties to compromise for the disappearance of France.
“I was ready to compromise, but every political party asked the other political party to adopt the entire program.”
This was a barely confidential criticism of Bruno Retailleau, the newly re -appointed Interior Minister and the leader of the central -right Group Les (LR) leader.
Shortly after the nomination on Sunday night, Retailleau criticized the composition of a government that “reflecting the promised break” and said that the party’s ruler would gather to continue to support the government the next day.
LR and 49 deputies were part of the “Socle Commun” (common base), which works with Macron’s centralist alliance, since the Snap elections, and even in some important reforms before that. Many of them played a key role, including former Minister of Economics and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who had mixed feathers at the LR party as the new defense minister.
Bruno Retailleau Interior Minister in the National Assembly in Paris, France on September 8, 2025, France.
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It is very ironic that a party that loves to present itself as a responsibility party, especially when it comes to public finances, triggers the latest French political crisis. However, LR’s distance from the government left Lecornu out of irrelevant to maneuver.
In a way, the disintegration of “Socle Commun” is not surprising. As the 2027 presidential elections approach, parties and key political figures will come. Macron cannot run again after winning the presidency twice. Even with its popularity, allies begin to remove themselves. The last move of LR may be another step in aligning a broader political reconstruction before the election.
What’s now?
Now all the eyes are returning to Elysee again.
On Monday evening, a surprise bending Macron gave Lecornu 48 hours for “last discussions” to try to break the dead end with rival parties.
Lecornu wrote Social Media Platform X Wednesday evening will report to the president about any potential breakthrough “for all the necessary results”.
It is difficult to see what Lecornu can achieve in 48 hours beyond what he has done since he was nominated almost a month ago.
So will the next step be another Snap choice?
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, led by the far right right right. This is not surprising, because the surveys are leading with 30 to 35% of the votes.
Marine Le Pen (L), President of the National Parliamentary Group of the Rassemblement, directs Bardella, the President of the French Extreme Right Rassemblement National RN Party and MEP party in the French National Assembly in the French National Assembly in Paris on September 14, 2024.
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This was the case last year, but the coalition of the left and the so -called “Cordon Sanitaire” vote. Since then, the coalition between the left, communists, greenery and socialists has exploded.
The termination of the National Assembly will really be a logical democratic election in the current situation, but there is no guarantee that it will provide a clearer majority.
Lecornu, the statement of resigning on Monday morning, “the person should always prefer his country’s party,” he concluded.
Last year’s Snap election result was a test result: did French deputies learn to work in large coalitions like most of their European colleagues? Fast 15 months forward, the answer echoed a ‘no’.
