More problems for Emmanuel Macron as another French PM resigns

In the end, Emmanuel Macron’s man could not take him off either.

When Sébastien Lecornu was appointed French Prime Minister three and a half weeks ago, the spin was that it was President Macron’s last card.

One last card, we were told, but a good one.

The 39 -year -old man was a presidential protégé – loyal, modest, non -demonstrative. We thought he had what it took to resolve a discreet agreement between the parties and save French implosion policy.

But it turns out that this was not the case.

Lecornu has undoubtedly dropped in even more embarrassing circumstances than his two unhappy predecessors.

At least, Michel Barnier and François Bayrou both presided over for a short time above their governments and filed some ideas.

Lecornu, on the other hand, appointed his cabinet late Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, he lost it. He couldn’t even make his inaugural speech in Parliament, which was scheduled for Tuesday.

His government lasted precisely 2 p.m.

The immediate cause of her regime calamitous swimmer is now clear. It was the party of the Conservative Republicans (LR) and their leader, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

With its 40 deputies, the LR has become a key element of the central right alliance which tries to manage France.

Retailleau has made a large part of his presence in the government to project himself and his party as natural candidates at state offices.

Earlier Sunday, he told Lecornu that he was ready to remain minister. But in the hour after the cabinet’s announcement, he posted on social networks that there had been a change of heart: LR might not join after all.

It is officially because Lecornu had made the dirty by appointing the former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as a defense choice.

The mayor – A former party colleague – is a particular Bugbear of LR, in part because he betrayed them by joining Macron, and in part because they blame him for having left French debt out of control when she is in control of the country’s finances.

Anyway, LR accuses Lecornu of having hidden the appointment of Le Maire – apparently, Retailleau did not learn until he lights his television.

And at the end of Monday, there was a new twist. The mayor agreed not to become a minister and Macron gave his outgoing Prime Minister a last minute stay of 48 hours, to see if he could persuade LR in the government.

Thus, the situation remains fluid.

Whatever happens, the deeper the truth is more than the more time, the more difficult it will be for anyone – even the most gifted Macron acolytes – to set up a stable government.

For what? Because the more time passes, the more France is getting closer to its next big electoral moment – the French presidential election of 2027.

Macron is so unpopular today that all those who associate himself with him are risking a severe blow the next time the public will have the chance to vote.

Consequently, the fractious central-right alliance in the heart of Macron-Land is now starting to break.

The LRs have come out, but many centrists are also starting to mumble. Even the former Prime Minister of the President of President Gabriel Attal keeps his distance.

If it looks like the twilight of an era, that’s what it is. The faithful leave, prepare for a world without Macron. It may not be that far.