Official sources noted that the head of State accepted the resignation of Lecornu, who announced an address to the nation, presumably to explain his surprising decision.

The Presidency of the Republic had announced on Sunday the ministers who would accompany Lecornu in the Cabinet.

Macron appointed him on September 9, one day after the left-wing and far-right opposition denied the vote of confidence in then-Prime Minister François Bayrou in the National Assembly, after calling his budget plan austerity.

In the new Government, the crisis erupted as soon as Lecornu was appointed, when Interior Minister and Conservative leader Bruno Retailleau questioned its composition last night, arguing that it did not “respond to the promised rupture.”

Retailleau convened his party members to an emergency meeting this morning, a step interpreted as a threat to abandon the Cabinet, composed essentially of Bayrou’s same ministers.

Opposition demands, from the far right to the dissolution of the National Assembly and from La France Insoumise (LFI) to Macron’s resignation, immediately began following Lecornu’s resignation.

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