"Calamitous end of reign...": opposition annoyed by the appointment of Sébastien Lecornu

According to Manuel Bompard, Sébastien Lecornu 's appointment as Prime Minister amounts to a "denial of democracy." "He still decided to ignore the results and continue to impose his policies. The National Assembly has now censured his governments twice, and he continues in the same direction. So, I find that there is obviously something totally unacceptable, totally contemptuous about this," he lashed out on RMC -BFMTV this Wednesday.

La France Insoumise will submit a spontaneous motion of censure against the government of the new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, "on the first day of the parliamentary session in the National Assembly," the LFI coordinator warned.

On Tuesday evening, the president of the Inousmis deputies, Mathilde Panot, called on the head of state to leave: "The only solution remains Macron's departure, and the September 1st movement must take on a completely different dimension so that the people respond to this new contempt for popular sovereignty."

The Greens are equally angry. The party's national secretary, Marine Tondelier, believes that Macronism is shrinking in on itself. "This provocation will continue. We'll learn that Retailleau is staying on as Minister of the Interior, Lombard is staying on as Minister of Economy, and Darmanin is staying on as Minister of Justice."

"Without social, fiscal, and ecological justice, without measures for purchasing power, the same causes will produce the same effects," warned the Socialist Party. "I ask the new Prime Minister to abandon Article 49-3, as we proposed, and to establish a new method. We must break with the policy pursued for the past 8 years: if nothing changes, the same causes will produce the same effects and we will censor," said the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure , on Francinfo this Wednesday morning.

"You don't change a losing team," grumbles RN president Jordan Bardella. MP Laurent Jacobelli also expresses his skepticism. "We have a double Macron: at the Élysée and at Matignon, at a time when the French no longer want the head of state's policies. It's off to a bad start: the end of his reign is calamitous. No censorship a priori, but if he pursues the same policies, he will meet the same fate," he warns on RMC.

According to our information, the National Rally (RN) is expected to participate in the upcoming consultations planned by Sébastien Lecornu. "The president (Macron) is firing the last shot at Macronism," Marine Le Pen reacted Tuesday evening.

While he was singled out in the press for a dinner with the leader of the RN, those close to the new Prime Minister deny any collusion with the party of the flame, stressing that in Eure, his department, four out of five deputies "have gone over to the RN".

"We will judge - without illusion - the new Prime Minister on the facts, on his actions, on his orientations to give a budget to France, and this in the light of our red lines" affirmed for his part on X the president of the RN, saying his party "is at his disposal to remind him of them".