France’s fifth Prime Minister (PM) in under two years, Sébastien Lecornu, has resigned.
Lecornu was appointed PM following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou 26 days ago.
The resignation of the former armed forces minister, a Macron loyalist, comes less than a day after his cabinet was unveiled.
It is learnt that French parties across the board in the National Assembly had fiercely criticised the composition of the cabinet.
While several parties are clamouring for early elections, others are calling for Macron to resign as well.
French politics has been highly unstable since July 2024.
Lecornu, in a brief speech outside the PM’s office, criticised the “partisan appetites” of political factions, who he said “are all behaving as if they had an absolute majority.”
“I was ready for compromise, but all parties wanted the other party to adopt their programmes in their entirety,” he said.
“It wouldn’t need much for this to work,” he added, saying, however, that parties needed to be more humble and “to cast some egos aside.”
