In the middle of the political crisis that crosses France and while the expectation for a eventual resignation of President Emmanuel Macronthe outgoing prime minister, Sébastien Lecornuaffirmed that negotiations with the different parties advance favorably and ruled out a possible dissolution of the National Assembly and the call to new elections.
After Lecornu will present his resignation on Monday, Macron He gave him 48 hours to see if a new government could form, which guarantees stability and avoid early elections. In this way, Lecornu began consultations with the different parties: he met first with Macron’s centrist alliance And then with the Conservative Party The Republicans (LR).
“There is a will to have a budget for France before December 31,” he explained in a short intervention at the executive headquarters. The outgoing minister has scheduled on his agenda meetings with the Socialists, communists and Ecologistswhich are key to achieving an agreement that gives stability to the country.
The deficit and political instability in France
Sébastien Lecornu This is the third chief of government of Macron in a year to present his resignation. Everything falls on the budgetary issue: the Parliament He knocked down the two prime ministers when they tried to approve the budgets. Lecornu’s predecessor had fallen when he was looking for support for his budget that included 44,000 million of euros of cuts.
After the talks with the parties, the outgoing minister gave few details about the content of the negotiations, but assured that all political groups agree to the need for reduce the country’s deficit and leave it between 4.7 and 5%to fulfill France’s commitments with the European Union and not aggravate the payment of interests of the debt.
However, it requires more support to guarantee stability, more taking into account that the early legislatures of 2024 left a national assembly without stable majorities and divided into three blocks: left, center -right governing and ultra -right.
Emmanuel Macron
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Retirement pensions: Macron’s most controversial measure
Macron imposed by decree In March 2023, his unpopular reform, which delays retirement age from 62 to 64 yearsdespite the fact that unions, public opinion and even a large part of deputies was against, in a context of mass strikes and manifestations.
Since then, pension reform is in the midst of public debate. The left -wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) He promised his repeal during the 2024 electoral campaign and the unions also ask to repeal it or at least suspend it. However, its suspension would have a cost of “hundreds of millions of euros in 2026 and billions in 2027“As the Minister of Economy warned, Roland Lescure.
In this way, France is under pressure in the markets due to its high level of public debt, around 115% of GDP. In addition, the political situation also worries in Europe and more and more voices in France ask for the resignation of Macron, whose mandate ends in 2027.
Although the president said he would assume his “responsibilities”, if Lecornu fails in his mission, the option that sounds most is the call for new legislative elections.
Source: Ambito
