French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to censure any government put forward by President Emmanuel Macron.
French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to censure any government put forward by President Emmanuel Macron, arguing that the only way out of the ongoing political crisis would be to hold elections.
President Macron has given himself a second 48-hour deadline to find a replacement for Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who became the shortest tenured PM in modern French history earlier this week after his government imploded from within just hours after he unveiled what was seen as a continuity Macron cabinet.
Lecornu appeared on national television on Wednesday evening after holding talks with the disparate factions of the National Assembly. Rumours swirled in the Paris press throughout the day that Lecornu may stage a comeback and attempt to form a second government within a week. However, speaking to France 2, the Macron ally said that his “mission is complete” suggesting that he has no interest in taking up residency in the Hôtel Matignon again.
Rumours also spread that Lecornu was seeking to come to a grand bargain with the Socialist Party, which would see the leftist party back a new government in exchange for the walking back of controversial pension age increases imposed on the country undemocratically by a previous Macron government.
