Overview

• The Élysée said Macron accepted Lecornu’s resignation the morning after he named an 18-member government, giving France its shortest-lived cabinet of the Fifth Republic.
• The lineup largely reinstated Bayrou-era ministers, triggering immediate censure threats from both the far right and the left.
• Les Républicains leader and interior minister Bruno Retailleau denounced the choices as lacking the promised rupture and signaled he could quit.
• Opposition leaders pressed for drastic steps, from dissolving the National Assembly to an immediate review of a motion to remove Macron.
• Financial markets slid on the turmoil, with the CAC 40 down about 2%, the euro weaker, and French 10-year yields and spreads versus Germany rising.