World News: Another French Prime Minister Resigns
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- Category: Haute This Issue
- Published on Tuesday, 07 October 2025 12:29
- Written by Olivier Longhi
The resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecorn, who has barely been appointed, has plunged the nation into chaos exasperated by an arrogant political class and by the President of the Republic lulled by his own stubbornness.
Between the call for an early presidential election and a new dissolution, the country is waiting. The continued upheaval is both ridiculous and grotesque. This sums up the situation in which France has been thrust since the announcement of the resignation of Lecornu, who has barely been appointed.
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Coupled with the power struggles, the conflicts of interest, the oversized and bloated egos of all parties, all claiming to be capable of turning around a sick country but incapable of concluding a government agreement capable of extricating France from the gangue in which it has been floundering for months henceforth.
Because to the grotesque and the ridiculous are now added the urgency and the need to find a decided, credible, competent and disinterested tenant to stay at the Hôtel de Matignon as Prime Minister. But the task does not stop there because he will have to be assisted by ministers who will adhere to the same ambitions. In the immediate future, because the French telenovela knows how to feed on permanent and daily twists and turns.
The proof is that some are already calling for an early presidential election which, objectively, would only add chaos to chaos, while it would be up to the President of the Republic to respect the vote of the voters from the legislative elections of July 2024 by choosing a Prime Minister who is the result of the parliamentary majority, in this case the left.
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Risks and Stubbornness
What risks does Emmanuel Macron run? In the end, none because if he resolved, his choice could not be reproached to him, especially if the success of this decision were to be there. On the contrary, he could be praised for having forced himself to do so.
On the other hand, if failure were to sanction the potential (and unlikely) government, it would be justified by humbly admitting that the proposed policy was not adapted to the country. Because to date, what is most reproached to the head of state is not so much the succession of heads of government as the almost autistic stubbornness he shows, giving the feeling of being locked in a parallel world, which nothing can reach. This obstinacy, which could be described as deadly, is pushing the country even further into an impasse. And the impasse has a cost!
At a time when every euro cent counts in an indebted country (115.6% of GDP, or €3.416 billion), the lack of reliable political prospects, i.e. relative institutional stability, weighs on investment, household confidence, consumption and favors security savings dedicated to protecting themselves from possible shocks on the labor market if unemployment were to increase.
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Hostage and Solution
Blocked and at a standstill, the country of Human Rights, always so quick to give lessons in democracy to the whole world with a scent of arrogance and contempt, finds itself hostage to the act of the Prince, more concerned with preserving his past as head of state than with the future of the latter. A glimmer of hope, but with what result?, would consist in carrying out a new dissolution that many are calling for.
But here again, dissolution is not a solution, imposing itself as a one-off settlement to the current crisis but provides neither budget nor prospects therefore postponed, at the very least, to the beginning of 2026. More used for political strategies than in a logic of stabilizing the state, this new dissolution would discredit a nation that is exasperated and most distrustful of its political class, which shines more by its mediocrity than by its genius.
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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.
