Lecornu returns as Prime Minister after five others gave up, all within a span of about three years. Europe’s second largest economy seems on course for an economic shock last seen during the Eurozone debt crisis over a decade earlier.

(Photo Credit : French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu delivers a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, Friday Oct. 3, 2025, before a round of consultations with political parties ahead of the announcement of the new government. (Alain Jocard, Pool Photo via AP))
The maneuver is now transparent: the sole purpose of abandoning 49.3 was to allow the budget to be passed by ordinance. The maneuvers continue, censorship is therefore necessary and dissolution is more than ever unavoidable.
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