Macron scrambles to salvage government as French PM quits after 27 days
According to the translation of the press release made by France 24, “Being a prime minister is even more difficult than normal, but if the conditions are not fulfilled properly, you cannot be the prime minister.”
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“I have tried to create these conditions for the last few weeks – the conditions that will enable us to adopt a budget for France.”
Lecornu accused his competitors for changing the conditions of the negotiations while trying to reach an agreement without calling individual competitors.
“When we always progress, we got the impression that the line actually returned,” he said.
As Prime Minister, one of his first moves was a non -popular attempt by his predecessor François Bayrou to raise productivity and reduce government costs. When this fell, Lecornu tried to negotiate the transition of a budget that could control prosperity expenditures.
His resignation is another sign that he could not break the dead end in Parliament to call the Parliamentary election in the hope of stopping the rise of Le Pen and his party after Macron last year.
The national rally and the allied parties have 138 seats in the National Assembly, which makes them the largest block, while the coalition of the community coalition loyal to Macron has only 91 seats. France Innowed 71 chairs and socialists have 66, while the Greens have 38.
After weeks of consultations with political parties on the board of directors, Lecornu appointed his ministers on Sunday and was ready to have his first meetings in the afternoon on Monday.
The ministers appointed on Sunday found the next day as guard ministers, and kept it in place to manage daily work until a new government was established.
One of these ministers, Bruno Le Maire resigned hours after Lecornu’s statement. Le Maire became the Minister of Finance responsible for non -popular economic policies and moved to the Ministry of Defense on Sunday and angered many people in the parliament. He said he left to help end the crisis.
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The newly re-appointed Ecology Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher was published in X: “I am desperate from this circus.”
Since the re -election of Macron’s re -election in 2022, French politics has become increasingly unstable to ask for any party or group that holds a majority of parliament.
Macron’s decision to call Snap parliamentary elections last year deepened the crisis by producing a more fragmented parliament.
“There is no return to stability from the disintegration of the national assembly without returning to the polls and the disintegration of the national assembly.
According to OECD, the French economy has slowed down in the last four years and government expenditures has increased and the federal debt that would reach about 120 percent of GDP next year has revealed.
AP with Reuters
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