Overview

• President Emmanuel Macron accepted Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s resignation, ending the shortest-lived government in modern French history after roughly 14 hours, with Lecornu having served 27 days as premier.
• French markets fell on the news, with the CAC 40 down about 1.5–2% and the euro sliding roughly 0.7%, as bank stocks led losses.
• Opposition leaders including Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella urged a dissolution of the National Assembly or Macron’s resignation, with left-wing figures also calling for him to go.
• The collapse followed cross-party backlash to a largely unchanged ministerial lineup, as Lecornu said rigid party positions made his pledge to avoid using article 49.3 unworkable.
• Macron now faces narrow options that include appointing another prime minister or calling new elections, though he has so far resisted dissolving parliament or stepping down.