Macron to appoint new French prime minister

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to appoint a new prime minister, following the resignation of Sebastien Lecornu.

Macron’s office, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, announced that the president a new prime minister in the next 48 hours.

The office added that a majority of lawmakers were against holding a snap parliamentary election amid France’s worst crisis in decades.

Lecornu, France’s fifth prime minister in two years, tendered his and his government’s resignation on Monday, just hours after announcing the cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern France.

But at Macron’s request, Lecornu has held further consultations with political leaders spanning the centre left to centre right in an effort to defuse the crisis.

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“A majority of deputies oppose dissolution (of parliament); a platform for stability exists; a path is possible to adopt a budget by December 31,” the Elysee presidential office told Reuters, citing Lecornu’s conclusions.

“On this basis, the President of the Republic will appoint a Prime Minister within the next 48 hours.”

Lecornu resigned after the opposition, but also some allies, threatened to vote him out, in a sign of the deep instability hitting France, where no group or party holds a majority in parliament, and parties struggle to reach compromises on major issues including fixing the country’s ailing finances.

He ended two days of talks with political leaders without a deal to end the crisis, but said he saw a path for a new premier to be appointed soon.

Lecornu did not say who that next prime minister could be, making clear his job was done and it was up to Macron to decide. The Elysee statement did not say who could get the job.

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