Reuters. Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Monday (October 6) that he no longer understood President Emmanuel Macron’s decisions, speaking on the French channel TF1. He spoke after outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was asked by the president to start two days of last-ditch talks on Tuesday (October 7) with members of various parties, a day after his shock resignation, in an effort to find a way out of the country’s political crisis.
Attal, a Macron loyalist, was prime minister for a few months last year before Macron called a snap vote that delivered a hung parliament with three ideologically opposed blocs. Lecornu’s resignation was precipitated by the furious criticism over the composition of his government, announced on Sunday evening. Foes and allies alike said it represented continuity and not change.
Bruno Retailleau, head of the conservative Republicans party, said he did not want to see his party absorbed into a broad Macron-led alliance, but did not close the door on a return to government. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose National Rally party tops opinion polls, wants an early parliamentary elections.
Speaking to BFM TV, the leader of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, said on Tuesday that he supported first a dissolution of the parliament, followed by parliamentary elections or early presidential elections.
Lecornu tendered his and his government’s resignation on Monday morning, after his government, announced on Sunday evening, was rejected by both allies and opponents. His government was the shortest-lived administration in modern French history. France’s current political crisis is the deepest since the creation in 1958 of the Fifth Republic, its modern system of government.
After the far-right surged in European Parliament elections, Macron announced snap elections for the lower parliamentary house. The result was a fractured parliament with no clear majority – in a country with a government designed to have a powerful president with a strong parliamentary majority, and little history of building coalitions and consensus.
Lecornu was Macron’s third prime minister since those elections were called, and Macron’s options are now limited.
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