Macron’s political isolation deepens as allies abandon him, with some calling for his resignation
PARIS (AP) – Embatted French President Emmanuel Macron received a new blow on Tuesday with two of his former prime ministers. collapse The last government.
After coming to power in 2017, édouard Philippe was the first prime minister of Macron, and Gabriel Attal was one of the most loyal lieutenants of the French President who was appointed as Prime Minister in January 2024 in the second period of Macron. Attal later announced his dissatisfaction with Macron’s striking decision in June 2024 to solve the root of the current crisis – the root of the current crisis.
Now, separate decisions to draw a line between them and Macron have shown how the president’s authority was united with his inability to provide stable governance.
Political turmoil lasted for more than a year and flowed from the termination of the National Assembly, which triggered new elections. The result was a parliament stacked with Macron opponents who put minority governments one after another.
Speaking to the publisher TF1 on Monday night, Attal hit the first coup: “Like many French people, I no longer understand the decisions of the President.”
Philippe then pressed more Tuesday, saying that Macron should call the early presidential elections and resign after the National Assembly had accepted the 2026 budget. Macron said he would have seen the second and last presidential period in 2027 until the end.
Philippe, Macron’un “the last six months we can not allow the drift of what we have lived. 18 months will be longer and damage France.”
Lecornu’s mission is not uphill
The latest crisis exploded on Monday with the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, the fourth prime minister of Macron, the fourth prime minister of Macron, Michel Barnier and Francois Bayrou.
After accepting Lecornu’s resignation, Macron gave his 39 -year -old ally 48 hours to make more “final negotiations for the benefit of national stability, which gave a significant last trench effort to find a French leader to find a kind of exit to the last dead end and decide the next step.
On Tuesday, Lecornu came together with Socle Commun, a coalition of conservatives and centrists, although he was shaking for the Shahaters of Macron’s prime ministers when Lecornu called a new cabinet on Sunday night.
Later, when the new government withdrew the conservative heavyweight Buno Retailleau support, it collapsed less than 14 hours.
He wants to manage the left, calls new elections on the right right
Macron, who now has record-lower approval ratings, did not show his next move. Rivals proposed three options: Call a new election or assign a prime minister from outside the political camp.
The third option, known as “acceptance”, was defended by left wing parties. A leftist coalition, New Popular FacadeHe won the most seats 2024 French legislative electionTo take back an extreme right fluctuation, but not to win the majority.
However, the alliance was rapidly disintegrated and both the socialists and the communists contradict the foresight of France with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left party.
Green Party leader Marine Tondelier told the French Television Network, “This is the choice of living together – finally being called to really change the lives of the French – he can really change the lives of our preferred French.”
On the other hand, it calls for SNAP elections on the right right. Currently, the leading Marine Le Pen in surveys believes that the national rally can work in favor of the new legislative elections.
“I urge the President of the President Jordan Bardella to hear the pain in the country, to leave the isolation and to terminate the National Assembly,” Bardan Bardella said. He said. “We must return to the French people so that they can choose the majority for themselves. We are ready to take responsibility.”
Meanwhile, many French people are disappointed.
“We should consider being on a respiratory device of the Fifth Republic on a respiratory device, on morphine, and perhaps a little change,” Guillaume Glade, a 36 -year -old worker, said to Associated Press. He said. “There are cracks on all sides and we can feel it.”
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Alex Turnbull, the Associated Press journalist in Paris, contributed to this story. Petrequin reported from London
