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ER Editor: Well, that was good for a laugh. The announcement of France’s new government last night under new PM Sebastien Lecornu (featured image right) was just arranging the proverbial deckchairs on the Titanic, with predictable derision from even the minimally awake and aware French. Popcorn time.
Translation: Lecornu took three weeks to deliver the latest gag in French politics: a carbon copy of the Bayrou government. Three weeks to dust off old slippers and call it renewal. Bravo, the artist. And as if the farce wasn’t already hard enough to swallow, he handed the Armed Forces to a former Finance Minister who let the public debt spiral like a casino gambler hooked on Russian roulette, except here it’s France’s international security at stake. After a trillion euros vanished, a bottomless pit, they recycle Nono Le Maire as a military strategist. We can already picture the defense doctrine: “retreat in good order.” From abroad, France increasingly looks like a shabby operetta where the president plays a diplomatic Don Quixote, tilting at windmills across the globe while his country crumbles behind the scenes. He no longer governs; he improvises, like in an amateur theater: the prompter is dead, the curtain falls, and the audience doesn’t feel like clapping but crying or screaming. They need to be ousted. Not gently, not politely. Kicked out like squatters who mistook the Republic for a free Airbnb. Thrown out, without hesitation, for causing harm, uncontrolled debt, and endangering France.
Lecornu aura mis trois semaines pour nous offrir le dernier gag de la politique française : une copie conforme du gouvernement Bayrou. Trois semaines pour rechausser des vieilles savates et appeler ça du renouvellement. Bravo l’artiste.
Et comme la farce n’était pas encore assez…— Jean Mizrahi (@JeanMizrahi) October 5, 2025
A prescient comment, n’est-ce pas, from far left career politician Jean-Luc Melenchon below, who is likely a 2.0 by now.
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Next French Government: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Hours after 18 ministers were named in a cabinet lineup that pleased neither the Left nor the Right, one was already rumored to be on his way out.
AFP & TEC NEWS
Secretary General of the French Presidency Emmanuel Moulin departs after announcing the first batch of newly appointed ministers forming the new French government, at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 5, 2025. Christophe Petit Tesson / POOL / AFP
Bruno Le Maire—economy minister from 2017–2024—was named defence minister (ER: he famously retired from politics, only to come back!) while Macron loyalist Roland Lescure will take over the economy portfolio, with the task of delivering a budget plan for next year, an undertaking that felled the last two governments.
Despite meetings and negotiations with the different political groupings, Lecornu seems to have missed the mark on putting together a government acceptable to a majority of the National Assembly. The list of largely familiar names, holdovers from the latest iteration of a French government, pleased neither the Right or the Left.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, and Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin are all returning, as is scandal-ridden culture minister Rachida Dati, who is set to stand trial for corruption next year.
Rassemblement National’s Marine Le Pen called the cabinet lineup “pathetic” while her party chair Jordan Bardella reiterated the threat of a no-confidence vote, saying the government “is clearly all about continuity, with absolutely none of the break [with the past] that the French are expecting.”
Nous l’avions dit clairement au Premier ministre : c’est la rupture, ou la censure.
Le gouvernement annoncé ce soir, composé des derniers macronistes agrippés au radeau de la Méduse, a décidément tout de la continuité, absolument rien de la rupture que les Français attendent.
— Jordan Bardella (@J_Bardella) October 5, 2025
Boris Vallaud, head of the Socialist MPs, accused Macron’s supporters of seeking to plunge France “further into chaos”.
“They lose elections but they govern. They don’t have a majority but refuse to compromise. They get overthrown but stay in office,” he said on X.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon of far-left La France Insoumise slammed the lineup as a “procession of revenants” that he said “will not last.”
“”Elections for nothing, two votes of no confidence for nothing? This won’t hold. And all this for what? Just to fatten up a parasitic oligarchy living off the country. The countdown to get rid of them has begun,” he said on X. According to Mélenchon, Bruno Retailleau was already threatening to leave the government on Sunday evening. “There you have the preachers of stability and responsibility,” he said.
Macron has just 18 months left in power and is enduring his worst-ever popularity levels. He has insisted he will serve out his term.
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Featured image source, Lecornu: https://www.threads.com/@latribune_news/post/DOjZwr2jjYZ
Featured image source, Macron & Borne: https://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/emmanuel-macron-president/elisabeth-borne-remerciee-emmanuel-macron-cherche-un-second-souffle-2045007
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