Since Emmanuel Macron’s reelection in 2022, five prime ministers have resigned. On Monday, October 6, 2025, Sébastien Lecornu, who had served as prime minister for three weeks, submitted his resignation just hours after appointing his government, even before the official handover of power could take place.
In the history of France’s five republics, his resignation places political authority in an unprecedented situation. Worse still, for the third time in a year, President Emmanuel Macron’s choices have been severely repudiated. Charles de Gaulle, the founder of the Fifth Republic, would never have imagined that one of his successors at the Élysée Palace would become incapable of governing properly under any circumstances.
What is the core of the current crisis? After three long weeks of consultations, meetings, and declarations, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promised a break [with the past] and transparency, but the composition of his government reflected neither the promised break nor transparency. According to the current Minister of State, Bruno Retailleau, Sébastien Lecornu did not inform him during a long conversation about the appointment of Bruno Le Maire as Minister of the Armed Forces. How could one so completely forget the hearings of Bruno Le Maire, the former Minister of Economy and Finance, held at the end of 2024 by the two presidents of the Senate and National Assembly investigative commissions regarding budgetary oversights related to a deficit estimated at 6.1% of GDP for 2024?
Such an appointment is utterly incompatible with the “promised break” that Sébastien Lecornu spoke of. Furthermore, the icing on the cake was the appointment of Éric Woerth to the new government, who had just been acquitted in the trial concerning suspicions of Libyan financing for Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, making the situation absurd. The height of irony lies in the fact that Bruno Le Maire stated in an interview with the magazine L’Usine nouvelle on September 22: “My return to the political world is completely out of the question.” And this after Sébastien Lecornu had promised “breaks” and “changes in method.” By unveiling a government populated with former ministers, he provoked indignation even within his own camp.
It is high time to say no to President Emmanuel Macron! Few international investors will want to commit to a country gripped by political chaos. Today, the yield on French government debt is approaching 3.60%, slightly above Italy’s. Italy is becoming more reliable than France in the eyes of investors. For France to recover, for the French people to finally experience a policy of industrial sovereignty, budgetary control, and social justice, the prerequisite for such a revival can only be the dissolution of the National Assembly. As Pierre Mendès France said, to govern is to choose, however difficult the choices may be. In 1953, he concluded his speech to the National Assembly with these words: “Let us think of that anxious youth whose destiny is the true stake of our debates, of this worried country that watches us and judges us. Let us work together to restore its faith, strength, and vigor, which will ensure its recovery and renewal.”
Submission, and a lack of ethics and courage are the main causes of the current French political crisis.
