Pressure mounted Saturday on France’s newly reappointed premier, Sebastien Lecornu, to get an austerity budget approved, as more parties threatened to topple a man whose first term lasted a mere 27 days.
In a move that drew sharp criticism, President Emmanuel Macron reinstated Lecornu late Friday evening, just four days after his resignation and the collapse of a government that had survived only 14 hours.
Lecornu, 39, now faces the task of forming a cabinet to present a 2026 draft budget on Monday, in a bid to end months of political paralysis and rein in France’s sprawling debt.
But his new government is already at risk, after his reappointment provoked outrage across the political spectrum and pledges to vote it down at the first chance.
Far-right National Rally party leader Jordan Bardella called Lecornu’s reappointment a “bad joke” and said he would immediately seek to vote out the new cabinet.