President Emmanuel Macron has moved rapidly to nominate Sebastien Lecornu as France’s new Prime Minister.
The appointment comes nearly precisely 24 hours after Francois Bayrou misplaced a confidence vote within the Nationwide Meeting – rejecting his bid to make £40bn in financial savings and chopping two of the nation’s annual public holidays.
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Francois Bayrou was ousted in a no confidence vote. Pic: Reuters
Lecornu, 39, is a Macron loyalist – he’s the one minister to have served in all eight years of Macron’s presidency and ran his re-election marketing campaign.
Publicly, the outgoing armed forces minister is a critical determine, giving little away, however is claimed to be energetic and engaged behind the scenes.
He is recognized to be a wily political operator, regardless of his younger years.
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By choosing somebody near him, Macron is once more taking an enormous danger.
He is selecting from a pool of centre-right politicians who’ve repeatedly did not breach a Nationwide Meeting impasse.
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This appointment will do nothing to chill tensions forward of nationwide protests tomorrow organised by the Block The whole lot (Bloquons Tout) motion – it is a large snub to the socialists and left-wing who consider they’ve a mandate to manipulate.
However Lecornu had a secret dinner with the far-right chief Marine Le Pen in 2024.
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Nationwide Rally’s Marine Le Pen Pic: Reuters
He reportedly has their tacit approval if he takes the job, and this could be Macron’s gamble: Nationwide Rally (Le Pen’s celebration) is the biggest within the parliament.
If Lecornu can deliver them onside, then he has an opportunity of breaching the divide and passing a much-needed funds with a deadline of seven October nearing.
