French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned on October 6, according to BFM TV and France 24 .
It is noted that President Emmanuel Macron has already accepted his resignation.
France 24 reports that Lecornu presented the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers the day before, but was harshly criticized because most of its members were in the previous government.
Lecornu was the country’s fifth prime minister in less than two years. He headed the government for less than a month, from September 9.
National Rally President Jordan Bardella called on Macron to dissolve the National Assembly following Lecornu’s resignation.
On September 8, the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament) of France passed a vote of no confidence in the government led by François Bayrou. The vote was supported by 194 of the 364 members of parliament – all parties opposed to Macron, from the far left to the far right, voted for the government’s resignation.
On September 9, French President Macron appointed Lecornu as prime minister, replacing François Bayrou, who had suffered a vote of no confidence in parliament. This came after Bayrou proposed cutting the state budget by €44 billion.
Before his appointment as head of government, Lecornu headed the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (analogous to the Ministry of Defense) from 2022.
