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France’s prime minister resigns
Los Angeles Times
|October 07, 2025
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned after less than a month in office on Monday and less than 24 hours after naming a new government that prompted a key coalition ally to withdraw support.
STEPHANE MAHE Pool Photo
SEBASTIEN LECORNU was France's fourth prime minister in barely a year.
The move deepened the country’s political crisis and left President Emmanuel Macron with few options.
The presidency said that Macron, who has been hitting record lows in opinion polls, accepted the resignation.
Lecornu had replaced his predecessor, Francois Bayrou, on Sept. 9 to become France’s fourth prime minister in barely ayear duringa prolonged period of political instability. Lecornu is now the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic, which started in 1958.
French politics have been in disarray since Macron called an early legislative election last year that produced a deeply fragmented National Assembly. Farright and left-wing lawmakers hold more than 320 seats in the lower house, while the centrists and allied conservatives hold 210, with no party having an overall majority.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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