Overview

• Sébastien Lecornu resigned after 27 days as prime minister and will report by Wednesday night on whether a cross‑party stability platform is possible, with the Élysée saying he would not automatically return to Matignon.
• Lecornu is meeting at 9 a.m. with leaders of the governing ‘socle commun’ and the heads of both chambers, Yaël Braun‑Pivet and Gérard Larcher, while LR chief Bruno Retailleau skips the group session and seeks bilateral talks.
• Macron’s entourage says the president will “take his responsibilities” if talks fail, a wording widely read as keeping a fresh dissolution of the National Assembly on the table.
• The Rassemblement National and allied groups say they will censure any government until dissolution or Macron’s resignation, as LFI presses a motion of destitution whose admissibility is set to be examined on Wednesday.
• New polling shows strong public backing for drastic remedies such as dissolution or the president’s departure, and Medef warns prolonged instability risks damaging France’s economic performance.