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Emmanuel Macron’s legacy could be irreversibly tarnished as he prepares to abandon his flagship pension reform in the hope of avoiding snap elections.
The announcement from the French president came after last-ditch talks held by Sébastien Lecornu, France’s departing prime minister, who said most parties wanted to avoid snap elections.
The president's office said that a majority of lawmakers were against holding a snap parliamentary election amid France's worst crisis in decades.
Making matters all the more complicated was the start of their love story, which began when Macron was a teen and a student at a private school in Amiens, his hometown. There he met Brigitte, his literature teacher, who was at the time married, sharing three kids with her then-husband.
The record-fast collapse of yet another government confronts President Emmanuel Macron and his country with an intensifying crisis.
Sébastien Lecornu didn’t say who his replacement could be. But appeared to rule himself out of coming back to the job. He said Wednesday that “my mission is finished.”
Emmanuel Macron faces calls to step down after French PM resigns - The French president faces another political crisis as his closest allies seek to distance themselves
French President Emmanuel Macron and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal, praising mediation by the US, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkiye. Both leaders urged all sides to uphold the agreement and called for lasting peace based on the two-state solution.
French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, the Elysee palace said in a statement on Wednesday. Macron thanked outgoing Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu for his work over the past 48 hours and acknowledged his conclusions that a majority of lawmakers oppose dissolving parliament,
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Macron organizes an interministerial meeting, involving Spain, parallel to the negotiations in Egypt
It will take place this Thursday in Paris, and the presence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio was planned, but his attendance is now in doubt. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, seeks to maintain a leading role in the peace negotiations in the Middle East.