
Time may be running out for Master of clocks Macron: What next for France?
2025-10-07 15:56:00
Paul KirbyEuropean Digital Editor and
Laura Josie

Eight years later, Emmanuel Macron’s position as head of pressure is exposed to the escalation of the political crisis of France.
Macron called himself Maître des Horlogs – Master of hours – but his leadership of timing is not the same. For the third time during the year of the prime minister’s resignation, opinion polls indicated nearly three quarters of the voters that the president should also step down.
The ally has long surrounded édouard philippe, who served as Prime Minister of Macron from 2017-20, to appoint the Prime Minister of the technocrats and called on the presidential elections in a “organized” way.
How did we get here?
Prime Minister Sebastian Lecorno announced his resignation at the beginning of a day of political drama on Monday, just 26 days after the job.
Hours later, he said that before Macron’s request to stay for another 48 hours to hold recent talks with political parties “for the stability of the country.”
The unexpected fluctuations were the latest in a long series of turmoil that started with the decision of Emmanuel Macron to contact the sudden parliamentary elections in June 2024. The result was a parliamentary suspended in which Macron’s Macron partners lost the majority of them and were looking for areas with other parties.
The leader of one of those parties, Bruno Ritayo, from the conservative Republicans, withdrew from the Likorno government 14 hours after its announcement.

The whole thing is about the religion of France
The great challenge facing Lecorno and its predecessors was how to deal with broken national debts in France and overcome ideological divisions between the central parties that could be part of a government.
In early this year, public debt reached 3345 billion euros, or nearly 114 % of economic production (GDP), the third highest in the eurozone after Greece and Italy. The France’s budget deficit this year is expected to reach 5.4 % of GDP.
Michelle Barnier and Francois Payro lasted only three and nine months in a row before being expelled in confidence voices while trying to address the deficit with austerity budgets.
It did not make Lecornu until a budget plan. Criticism poured into all parties as soon as the cabinet was presented on Sunday afternoon, and by Monday morning he decided that his position could not be defended.
He blamed his departure in the position of uninterrupted parties, he said: “Everyone behaves as if they had a majority.”
All parties wear the upcoming presidential votes in 2027, and they are preparing for the possibility of sudden parliamentary elections in the event that Macron dissolves Parliament again.
Who are the main characters in this crisis?
Leaders who were calling Macron to resign for several months on the right right and radical left.
Marine Le Pen and her little lieutenant in the right -wing national gathering, Jordan Bartella, ready for the elections and rejected Lecorno’s invitation to talk.
Jean -Luc Milinkon of the extremist left France (LFI) was provoking Macron’s insulation, although this seems unlikely. It is supported by the vegetables.
The socialists in the center were in Olivier immediately after allied with the radical left during the last elections, but they were speaking to Lecorno, provided that it was a left -wing government.
Then there is Gabriel Atal, who leads the Central Renaissance Party in Macron, but said he no longer understood the president’s decisions.
On the center right, Bruno Ritayo, who was part of the so -called Socle Commun (shared platform) with the two centers.

What happens now?
Lecornu was deep in discussions with party representatives and he had Wednesday evening to present a “action and stability platform” to Macron.
There are four options – none of them seem good.
- If Lecornu is able to persuade the central parties to form a type of government, Macron will be able to name a new prime minister, whatever it is. Lecornu has pointed out that he does not want to take office, although this is not a final number. The depths are not large. When he resigned on Monday, Lecorno said: “I was ready to settle, but all parties wanted the other party to adopt its entire programs.” But France needs to pass a type of 2026 budget to treat its national debts, and the factions know this.
- If Lecornu fails, Elysee indicated that Macron “will take responsibility”. This may mean the new parliamentary elections, which would spell the bad news of its midfield allies and the socialists, but will benefit the national march run by Marin Lob in particular.
- Macron’s presidency ends in 18 months, but he faces increasing calls to step down. He has repeatedly refused the early presidential elections, but they are not unique. Former Macron Minister Benjamin Haddad argues that his resignation will not have meaning because the next president will face the same problem: “The political division here to survive.”
- Even without a government agreement, the parties can put their differences aside in Parliament and reach a compromise with a limited budget. But the French policy is not known for its culture.
Did Macron run out of the road?
After the third prime minister announced last year his resignation on Monday, Macron went on a long picnic along the Seine, and his mobile phone to his ear.
A trick for cameras? Perhaps, but he was symbolic of the solitary nature of his position, as he faces some of the most difficult options in his presidency and it seems that some of his former allies pass it.
But the president knew for some time from the upcoming political challenges, and it is not the one who surrenders without fighting – Or another attempt to achieve stability in France is increasingly notable. There is a feeling that the time may be running out for the watches.
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