{"id":8552,"date":"2025-10-06T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/channelafrica\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:25:02","slug":"french-prime-minister-lecornu-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/french-prime-minister-lecornu-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"French Prime Minister Lecornu resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uSg02\">\n<div class=\"DrnCK\">\n<div class=\"HwXOf\">\n<div class=\"kcAOr t9ThB\" data-testid=\"RecipientWell\">\n<div data-tabster=\"{&quot;mover&quot;:{&quot;cyclic&quot;:false,&quot;direction&quot;:2,&quot;memorizeCurrent&quot;:false}}\">\n<div class=\"___sj378o0 fly5x3f f1l02sjl f113hnb5\">\n<div class=\"EditorClass ___ok1c3p0 ftgm304 fr7e4de f1ids18y f1ohdurq f1fa7rqs f1ee13vk fkhj508 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv fly5x3f f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f f19f4twv f1tyq0we fz5stix g7toD\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"edit\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-readonly=\"true\" aria-label=\"To: Sithakazelo Dlamini\">\u200bFrance&#8217;s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history, driving stocks and the euro sharply lower.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"document\">\n<div id=\"UniqueMessageBody_383\" class=\"XbIp4 jmmB7 GNqVo allowTextSelection OuGoX\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Message body\">\n<div class=\"BIZfh\">\n<div class=\"rps_30d1\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The swift resignation was unexpected and marked another major deepening of France&#8217;s political crisis. It came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking after tendering his resignation, Lecornu blamed the collapse on the inability of political parties to compromise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lecornu was prime minister for only 27 days. His government lasted 14 hours. The far-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. The hard left France Unbowed said Macron himself must go.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bFrance&#8217;s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history, driving stocks and the euro sharply lower. The swift resignation was unexpected and marked another major deepening of France&#8217;s political crisis. It came after allies and foes alike&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/french-prime-minister-lecornu-resigns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French Prime Minister Lecornu resigns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[130,129,113],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-prime-minister","tag-sebastien-lecornu","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}