US EditionFormer French PM Edouard Philippe Calls for Early Presidential Poll
Philippe proposes appointing a prime minister to pass the budget before Macron calls an early election amid a political crisis and debt at 115% of GDP.
- Édouard Philippe urged President Emmanuel Macron to appoint a new prime minister to pass a budget and bring forward the 2027 presidential election, on Tuesday, October 7.
- The resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday continued a pattern of short-tenured premiers after a snap parliamentary election last year left a hung parliament.
- Philippe, who led the government from 2017 to 2020 and heads Horizons party, urged appointing a technocrat prime minister to pass the 2026 budget before a presidential transition.
- Macron has resisted resigning and appears more likely to dissolve parliament than to step down, while Gabriel Attal publicly voiced disquiet and criticized internal criticism within Macron's camp.
- With the national debt at 345 billion and the deficit at 5.4% this year, public opinion polls show nearly three-quarters favor Macron's resignation.
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Sebastien Lecornu's resignation put the head of state back in the storm. Even Edouard Philippe asks for an early presidential election. If he does not want his dismissal like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the observation
MAINTENANCE - The candidate of Horizons in the presidential election proposes to Emmanuel Macron to organise "decently" his resignation to "get out of this crisis". Either by playing his future on a referendum, like de Gaulle, or by planning his departure after the vote on the budget.
After Sébastien Lecornu's sudden resignation, Edouard Philippe suggests that Emmanuel Macron appoint a new Prime Minister solely to have a budget adopted, before resigning in order to provoke an early presidential election. In concrete terms, how could such a scenario be carried out? That's the question asked by 20 Minutes on Tuesday, 7 October.The assumption of the former Prime Minister is simple: first to secure the finance law, then to cause …
While former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe called for a "early presidential election" on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron's resignation is "a legal possibility," the constitutionalists interviewed say. But "nothing compels" the president.
This Tuesday morning, Édouard Philippe asked the Head of State to organise a "early presidential election."Last night, Gabriel Attal, also former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron, said that he "does not understand" his decisions. - From Édouard Philippe to Gabriel Attal, is Emmanuel Macron left behind by his side? (Politics).
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