France’s Prime Minister Resigns 14 Hours After Taking Office

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Sebastien Lecornu

The fifth French Prime Minister has resigned. Number five is down and it’s off to number six. No Prime Minister in France’s history has served for so short a time.

France’s government collapsed Monday after the country’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu tendered his resignation. The day before, he appointed his cabinet.

Lecornu almost lasted a month and resigned just 14 hours after taking office because his newly formed government immediately faced unified opposition from both political allies and rivals, rendering it impossible to govern.

The resignation of the country’s second-highest-ranking public official plunged France further into a political crisis that has seen a rotating cast of five different prime ministers in less than two years.

CBS News reports that France has been mired in political paralysis since President Emmanuel Macron, who appoints the prime minister, called snap national elections last year. It resulted in no political party having a majority in the Parliament.

The right-wing is demanding a new election.

“There is no solution, there won’t be one tomorrow: I call on the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly,” Le Pen said in a social media post.

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Htos1av
Htos1av
23 days ago

he must have LOVED epstein island! LMAO!

The Prisoner
The Prisoner
23 days ago

The only reason unstable France exists is that the USA saved them in 1944. France declared war on Germany in 1939 for an inexplicable reason, and they were not ready to go to war. Germany just waltzed right in with no resistance and took over for 4 years. Now France wants war with Russia, which would again result in a… Read more »

Flemming
Flemming
22 days ago
Reply to  The Prisoner

Inexplicable? GB and France promised Poland military support. When Germany attacked Poland, GB and France declared war on Germany because of their promise.

John Vieira
John Vieira
23 days ago

Hope Spain can come up with another El Cid…they WILL need him…the Eastern Europeans SHOULD revive the Warsaw Pact…their only hope for ‘salvation’…The rest of the EU is approaching, already passed?, the point of no return…

The Prisoner
The Prisoner
23 days ago
Reply to  John Vieira

Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Rep are starting to move away from the EU.