Overview

• Lecornu quit less than a month into the job and only hours after announcing a largely continuist team dominated by holdover ministers.
• Les Républicains leader Bruno Retailleau rejected the lineup and threatened to pull support, with backlash intensifying over Bruno Le Maire’s move to Defense.
• The Élysée confirmed the resignation and said ministers are now serving in an interim capacity as parties enter urgent consultations on next steps.
• Opposition leaders renewed demands to dissolve the National Assembly, and left leaders pressed to revive a presidential destitution motion.
• Paris stocks fell roughly 1.7–2% as the turmoil clouded the 2026 budget calendar and underscored mounting fiscal and political risk.