Overview
- Two weeks after the previous government fell, Sébastien Lecornu serves as France’s third prime minister in less than a year.
- La France Insoumise rejects talks and plans to launch a destitution process against Emmanuel Macron on September 23 alongside a censure motion.
- The Socialist Party signals a tilt toward censure for now, and a National Rally deputy says Lecornu’s survival is almost impossible while urging a dissolution of Parliament.
- Lecornu is holding rapid consultations this week, meeting Force Ouvrière on Monday, centreright leaders on Tuesday and the interunion on Wednesday, with a concrete budget plan expected soon.
- The government aims to find roughly €50 billion in savings while keeping pension reform, but its conservative support lacks a stable majority and early polling shows 42% satisfied with Lecornu’s first days.