THE GUARDIAN: French president requests Sébastien Lecornu stay on for 48 hours after he quit complaining of ‘egos’
Hours after France’s new prime minister resigned less than a month after he was appointed, Emmanuel Macron has asked him to stay on for two more days in a last-ditch effort to chart a way out of the country’s rapidly deepening political crisis.
The French president on Monday evening gave Sébastien Lecornu – who had earlier become the third prime minister of the EU’s second-biggest economy to quit within a year – 48 hours to “conduct final negotiations … to define a platform for action and stability”.
Lecornu said he would inform Macron by Wednesday evening “whether this is possible or not”. Government sources told French media that Macron would “assume his responsibilities” if the effort failed. It was not immediately clear what this might entail. » | Angelique Chrisafis in Nîmes and Jon Henley in Paris | Monday, October 6, 2025
