French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that he will name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, for now rejecting other options in the face of a political storm.
The naming of a replacement for outgoing Prime Minister Sbastien Lecornu, who abruptly resigned on Monday, will at least for now move France away from the likelihood of snap legislative elections, another possibility that is available to the French leader but which could plunge the European Union’s second-largest economy into even greater uncertainty.
The announcement from Macron’s office of a prime ministerial appointment before the weekend came after Lecornu at the president’s request spent the two days after his resignation taking the temperature in Parliament, to see whether there was enough support in the powerful but fractured lower house to form a new government.
Lecornu concluded that there was, even though Macron’s camp and its allies don’t have a majority in the National Assembly and the French ..​French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that he will name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, for now rejecting other options in the face of a political storm.
The naming of a replacement for outgoing Prime Minister Sbastien Lecornu, who abruptly resigned on Monday, will at least for now move France away from the likelihood of snap legislative elections, another possibility that is available to the French leader but which could plunge the European Union’s second-largest economy into even greater uncertainty.
The announcement from Macron’s office of a prime ministerial appointment before the weekend came after Lecornu at the president’s request spent the two days after his resignation taking the temperature in Parliament, to see whether there was enough support in the powerful but fractured lower house to form a new government.
Lecornu concluded that there was, even though Macron’s camp and its allies don’t have a majority in the National Assembly and the French .. ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
