THE GUARDIAN: Rivals say president’s latest cabinet represents unwelcome continuity and hard-left party vows to file no-confidence motion amid fraught budget talks
French president Emmanuel Macron has named a new government as he struggles to pull the country out of a political crisis, while rivals threatened to topple the lineup quickly if it failed to break with Macron’s past policies.
The new cabinet was unveiled nearly a month after the appointment of prime minister Sebastien Lecornu, who sought to obtain cross-party support in a deeply divided parliament.
Lecornu – Macron’s seventh prime minister – named Roland Lescure, a close ally of the president, as finance minister. Lescure briefly spent time in the Socialist party early in his career.
His nomination on Sunday was widely seen as a nod to the left ahead of further delicate cross-party budget negotiations but leftwing lawmakers were unimpressed, with the hard-left France Unbowed party saying a no-confidence motion would be filed immediately. » | Agencies | Monday, October 6, 2025
