Macron will nominate a new French prime minister in 48 hours

French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new Prime Minister within 48 hours, said the Elizhi Palace, repelling speculation that fresh elections may be upcoming.

Earlier on Wednesday, leaving Prime Minister Sebastien Director said that the possibility of dissolving parliament was beginning to fade after talks with political parties in the last two days.

“There is a majority in parliament and this is the majority that wants to avoid new elections,” he said.

On Monday, Guard, a close ally of Macron – became the third French prime minister to leave his job for less than a year, expelled from a hanged parliament, deeply divided by ideological lines.

He was then asked by Macron to stay for two days to form a consensus among parties to get out of the current political crisis.

In the highly anticipated television interview on Wednesday evening, Durnu did not give any indication of who would be the next prime minister, and although he said his mission was “finished”, he also did not seem to exclude completely.

He said that, whatever they would want new elections, most MPs also acknowledged the urgent need to cross a budget by the end of the year.

However, he acknowledged that the path to the formation of a government was still complicated due to divisions in parliament and to politicians watching the next presidential election.

Anyone who ends up in the government will have to be completely excluded from any presidential ambition for 2027, “said a former Minister of Armed Forces.

The political impasse of France began after the SNAP election in July 2024. Since then, no party has had a majority, which makes it difficult to adopt any laws or reforms, including the annual budget.

The big challenge that his two predecessors face is how to deal with the crippling national debt of France, which this year amounts to 3,4TN (2.9TN) or almost 114% of economic production (GDP), the third highest in the euro area after Greece and Italy.

Previous Prime Ministers Michel Barnier and Francois Bayro were overthrown with voices of trust after presenting budgets for strict savings.

Guard said his own budget project would be presented next week, although he would be “open to debate”.

“But the debate has to start … The sides cannot say that they will vote without looking at it,” he added.

Similarly, said Guard, a major problem that has hit French policy since 2023, will have to be reviewed – Macron’s highly contested pension reforms. “We have to find a way to take the debate,” said Guard.

But some factions in parliament seem stationary.

Matilde Pano from the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) said shortly after a TV interview with Dulknu that the only solution was “Emanuel Macron’s resignation and departure.”

Meanwhile, the leader of the far -right national rally Marin Le Pen, who has long been calling for new elections, said on Wednesday that he would vote for any new government.

At this stage, it is unclear which political forces would support a new government.

The so -called common platform of centrists and Republicans who have run the government last year seems to be falling apart.

The big question now is whether, in the last 48 hours, Lecornu has been able to convince the socialists who were part of this left -wing block during the election, to support the government in some way.

Asked about the calls of some political factions for Macron to resign, even former Macron Prime Minister Edward Philip sailed the idea earlier this week, Dulknu said that France needed a stable, an internationally recognized figure in his helm.

“This is not the time to change the president,” said Ledknu.

However, Macron seems more and more isolated, with even nearby allies beginning to distance themselves from him.

Earlier this week, Gabriel Atal, widely regarded as Macron’s protégé, said he “no longer understands” Macron and called for the appointment of an independent negotiator to lead the government.

Macron has not yet spoken publicly after the shock resignation of Guard on Monday morning. Guard promised that the president would “turn to the French people on time” without specifying when this could be.