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Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally leads polls and blocks government formation amid France’s political crisis with public debt at record highs, officials said.
- On October 8, 2025, Marine Le Pen vowed to thwart all action by any new government and pledged to make life impossible for any new Cabinet before the Oct 9 deadline.
- After the 2024 snap elections, the Assemblée Nationale toppled two prime ministers in a standoff over next year's austerity budget, and S�bastien Lecornu resigned Monday, fracturing coalition efforts.
- An Odoxa poll of more than 1,000 French people found National Rally leads voting intentions despite Marine Le Pen being barred from standing due to a corruption conviction.
- With public debt at an all-time high, President Emmanuel Macron persuaded S�bastien Lecornu, outgoing prime minister, to stay briefly to break the impasse, while centrists seek a budget for France before Dec 31.
- Edouard Phillipe suggested early presidential polls soon after a budget passes, while the pensions reform raising retirement from 62 to 64 remains a key grievance and Le Pen's parliamentary group said `I vote against everything`.
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France's Le Pen vows to block any government
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Wednesday she would thwart all action by any new government, throwing into doubt Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's ability to solve the country's deepening political crisis with a coalition cabinet.
The French Prime Minister resigned and "resurrected", Sébastien Lecornu, tries to fulfill Macron's task: to negotiate a government of "national coalition" with socialists, centrists and traditional conservatives. But Marine Le Pen, leader of the extreme right, remains firm: "We will present a motion of censure against any executive that follows Emmanuel Macron's catastrophic policies." Lecornu began consultations with the parties that form the g…
France's Le Pen vows to block any government, calls for polls
French Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said Wednesday that there were no guarantees that the suspension to France's controversial pension reform would go ahead, following talks with caretaker Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. In an address from Matignon earlier in the day, Lecornu said he hoped to have a budget by the end of 2025, adding that dissolution of the country's parliament was looking "more remote". Professor of Public Law at Unive…
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