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French Prime minister resigns after 27 days in Office - French political crisis continues

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Today 6 October 2025, the french prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned, leaving the country once again without government.

June 9 2024, due to his party having a minority in the parlement, the president Emmanuel Macron dissolved it and called for a snap election.


However, the result were worse than before, and he's now struggling since that day to have a government able to negociate with the parlement and get destitution by a "motion de censure" (it's a vote allowed by the constitution, and if a minimum number of deputees vote it, it forced the prime minister to resign).

Since June 9 2024, 3 prime minister tried to form a governement and hold, but failed ( Barnier and Bayrou being forced to resign by Parlement vote, and Lecornu resigned)

Sébastien Lecornu lasted 26 days as Prime minister, which is the shortest time in the Fifth Republic.

Opposition parties (Especially LFI and RN) are calling for Macron to resign or to dissolve again the Parlement to call new snap elections.

www.bfmtv.com

Le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron qui l'a acceptée

L'éphémère Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission au Président de la République ce lundi 6 octobre.
www.bfmtv.com www.bfmtv.com
www.lemonde.fr

French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet

The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.
www.lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr
 
Onoya said:
Today 6 October 2025, the french prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned, leaving the country once again without government.

June 9 2024, due to his party having a minority in the parlement, the president Emmanuel Macron dissolved it and called for a snap election.


However, the result were worse than before, and he's now struggling since that day to have a government able to negociate with the parlement and get destitution by a "motion de censure" (it's a vote allowed by the constitution, and if a minimum number of deputees vote it, it forced the prime minister to resign).

Since June 9 2024, 3 prime minister tried to form a governement and hold, but failed ( Barnier and Bayrou being forced to resign by Parlement vote, and Lecornu resigned)

Sébastien Lecornu lasted 26 days as Prime minister, which is the shortest time in the Fifth Republic.

Opposition parties (Especially LFI and RN) are calling for Macron to resign or to dissolve again the Parlement to call new snap elections.

www.bfmtv.com

Le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron qui l'a acceptée

L'éphémère Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission au Président de la République ce lundi 6 octobre.
www.bfmtv.com www.bfmtv.com
www.lemonde.fr

French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet

The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.
www.lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr
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I am unfamiliar with the provisions of the Constitution of the 5th Republic. However, this type of inability to form a government is one of the mechanisms that give rise to Fasc er authoritarians. I am genuinely curious - what safeguards are in place to manage this risk in the 5th Republic? (I'm not asking as a means to belittle parliamentary style government or French politics. I pose this question out of pure academic interest to understand the French perspective.)
 
teekay99 said:
I am unfamiliar with the provisions of the Constitution of the 5th Republic. However, this type of inability to form a government is one of the mechanisms that give rise to Fasc er authoritarians. I am genuinely curious - what safeguards are in place to manage this risk in the 5th Republic? (I'm not asking as a means to belittle parliamentary style government or French politics. I pose this question out of pure academic interest to understand the French perspective.)
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the main safe guard is the parlementarian system and the article 49.3 of the constitution. I'm not a home so I can't check the details of it, but basically, every law must be approved by both the parlement and the Senate.

The government can force the adoption of a law using the 49.3. but by doing so, a vote happens in the parlement called "vote de confiance".

if 2 third of the parlement vote against the government, the government is forced to resigned and the president must appoint a new prime minister. That's what happened to Barnier, the first prime minister appointed after the start of the current political crisis.


Also, there is the republican barrage. That's not the constitution but more a cultural thing.

The RN is the most authoritarian like party, and far right ( the foundator of the RN took part of the Algerian independence war and was torturing Algeria POW, and a lot of the leading part of the RN had link to neo nazi).

Due to that past, the RN is seen as the fascist party, and everytime they are close to win the presidential election, all the voters of others parties vote for whoever is competing against them. Because it's better to have Macron or whatever than fascist. That's I guess a legacy of the german occupation in WWII etc...

However, I'm not sure if the republican barrage could be a thing if another party starts to be authoritarian and close to have a president.

Since I'm not at home and without access to a computer, I can't source stuff etc... but if you need, I can explain more throughouly later today or tomorrow
 
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Report of Macron decided to dissolve the parlement again and organize another snap election.
It is confirmed that Macron did spoke with Gerard Larcher (president of the senate) and Yaël Braun-Pivet (president of the parlement).


About the unconfirmed report of Macron preparing to dissolve the parlement, there is rumors that the Prefet (kinda a french equivalent of governors? they take part of the logistical organisation of elections) took instruction to prepare for election.

And also, i have a friend that works a secretary in a town hall, they personaly told me that they received also instructions and all the paperwork for elections (voting envelopes etc...)






WHAT IS BELOW IS MY PERSONAL OPINION :
That's a risky move if true because now, the budget for 2025 still haven't been prepared and voted.
A snap election would take at least 40 days to organize + 2 weeks to vote (french laws require 40 days of electoral campaign, and we vote here in 2 rounds.) And after that, the president would have to choose another PM according to the result, and the PM would have to nominate a government.

And after all that, parlement can finally start working on the budget... (usually, by September, the parlement should almost be finished to prepare the budget of the next year) So yeah, the budget won't be ready for 2026
 
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