Sebastien Lecornu: French President Emmanuel Macron names loyalist as new French Prime Minister
French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen Loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one -time conservative protein gathered behind the 2017 Presidential Run – as a prime minister, he can choose a progressive that challenges expectations.
The election of 39 -year -old Mr. Lecornu shows the determination to press a minority government behind the pro -business economic reform agenda, where Macron’s work and wealthy taxes are cut and the retirement age is increasing.
Mr. Macron was forced to appoint a fifth prime minister in less than two years after the parliament’s role on the country’s plans to domesticate the balloon debt of the Francois Bayrou for nine months.
While delivering the business to Mr. Lecornu, Mr. Macron faces the risk of alienation of the socialist party, and leaving the President and government of Marine Le Pen’s populist nationalist national rally for Marine Le Pen’s support in Parliament.
Mr. Lecornu’s emergency priority will be to create a consensus on a budget for 2026, which will be a task that proves that the Bayrou, which pushes for the aggressive expenditure interruptions that stands out on a twice the European Union ceiling in 3 percent of GDP.
This week, political turmoil is deeper in a debt swamp in France, while weakening the largest economy of the euro zone, leaving the bare deepening turmoil.
Mr. Lecornu’s nomination is not dangerous for Macron.
It faces the risk of popular discontent boiling and polls showing that voters want change.
The country -wide “prevents everything” protests threaten widespread deterioration on Wednesday.
Mr. Lecornu recently served as Macron’s Defense Minister and supervised an increase in military expenditures, and in case a peace agreement with Russia, he helped shape Europe’s security on security guarantees for Ukraine.
Mr. Lecornu, in local governments, overseas regions and during the yellow vests of Mr. Macron, he helped to manage his anger with dialogue.
He also held negotiations about autonomy during the unrest in Guadeloupe in 2021.
Mr. Lecornu entered politics for former president Nicolas Sarkozy at the age of 16.
At the age of 18, he became the mayor of a small town in Normandy and then 22 years old Mr. Sarkozy’s youngest government advisor.
When the President was first elected in 2017, he left the Conservative Les Party to participate in Macron’s centralist political movement.
Five years later, he conducted Mr. Macron’s re -election campaign.
Macron seems to have decided to protect the economic heritage at all costs by calling a minister with a conservative background from his own camp.
Socialists promised to reverse some of the flagship pro -business policies, including the scrapping and retirement age of the reserve tax.
From time to time, Mr. Lecornu went into the ear of Marine le Pen and party chief Jordan Bardella, and Mr. Lecornu had a secret dinner last year.
RN officials told Reuters that they could get some kind of implicit support to Mr. Lecornu if they are called Prime Minister.
RN said he would not tolerate tax increases in hardworking people.
With AP
