‘Lame Duck’ Macron Clings to Power After Another French Government Collapses, as a Top Ally Now Demands He Resign To Stop Deepening Political Crisis | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
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Calls for Macron’s resignation have gone mainstream.
After his seventh chosen Prime Minister resigned a month after being appointed and just hours after presenting the ‘new cabinet’, French President Emmanuel Macron is in the deepest crisis of his troublesome mandate.
The British Times writes that Macron has become a ‘lame duck running out of options.’
French newspaper Le Monde adds that Macron faces a hard choice of three scenarios: 1) appoint a new prime minister, 2) dissolve the National Assembly again and hold elections, or 3) – in the worst case – resign himself.
Reuters reported:
“France’s President Emmanuel Macron faced growing pressure on Tuesday to resign or hold a snap parliamentary election to end political chaos that has forced the resignation of five prime ministers in less than two years.
The 47-year-old centrist president has repeatedly said he will see out his second term, which ends in 2027.
But resignation calls, long confined to the fringes, have entered the mainstream during one of the worst political crises since the 1958 creation of the Fifth Republic, France’s current system of government.”
BREAKING: Macron ally and former French PM Edouard Philippe calls on President Macron to resign and call new elections to end the country’s political crisis
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 7, 2025
Macron was dealt a hard blow when his first Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said today that the President ‘should resign before the end of his term’ to quell the deepening political crisis.
Politico reported:
“I’m not for an immediate and brutal resignation … but [the president] must take an initiative’, Philippe said on French radio station RTL.
Philippe, Macron’s first prime minister who served from 2017 to 2020, said his former boss should ‘announce that he will organize an early presidential election’ once France passes a budget for next year — allowing time for a proper campaign in the aftermath of the chaos triggered by the government’s resignation Monday just 14 hours after key ministers were named. It was the third government to collapse in a year. Speaking to RTL radio, Philippe said Macron should be ‘leaving in an orderly manner’ to allow a way out of the crisis.”
Macron is clinging to power.
Seemingly without options, Macron gave his ousted prime minister Sebastien Lecornu 48 hours ‘to save his administration’.
The Telegraph reported:
“In a fresh twist, Mr. Macron then announced that he had tasked Mr. Lecornu with conducting ‘final negotiations by Wednesday evening to define a platform of action and stability for the country’, according to an aide.”
If Lecornu fails, Macron ‘may’ call snap legislative elections.
“Adding to the confusion, Mr. Lecornu let it be known that even if such talks proved fruitful, he did not want the prime ministerial job back, according to BFMTV.
‘The conditions were no longer in place for me to carry out my duties’, he said, announcing his resignation. He criticized the leading political parties, all of which lack a parliamentary majority, for failing to make sufficient compromises.”
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