Borloo or Lecornu? For Matignon, the Ball Returns to Macron’s Court

After the resignation of his Prime Minister and the consultations led by Sébastien Lecornu, Emmanuel Macron must announce the name of his future head of government by Friday evening.

The ball is in the court of the president, who is moving forward on a tightrope: Emmanuel Macron must learn lessons from the last chance consultations led by Sébastien Lecornu in order to appoint a Prime Minister by this Friday evening.

Reappoint Sébastien Lecornu? Call the left to Matignon? Choose another personality? Launch new consultations? Agree to re-debate pension reform?

The President of the Republic, who has remained in the shadows since the surprise resignation of his Prime Minister on Monday, now finds himself on the front line, with the challenge of removing a new dissolution, refused according to Sébastien Lecornu by an absolute majority in the National Assembly.

At the end of the last chance consultations carried out, Sébastien Lecornu wants to believe in the appointment of a Prime Minister by Friday evening despite persistent disagreements. Here are his main statements on the 8 p.m. news.

Among the options he has in his hands, the reappointment of the former Minister of the Armed Forces, to Matignon for a month but whose government lasted barely a few hours.

If the latter assures that he is not “running after the job” and having “finished” his “mission”, several political leaders attributed to Emmanuel Macron the temptation to reappoint him, at the risk of ulcerating the oppositions which continue to castigate the ” stubbornness” of the head of state.

Emmanuel Macron is playing the last cards of his five-year term. Between the temptation of a coalition government, the pressure of dissolution and the fear of a budgetary blockage, the Élysée is seeking a way out of an unprecedented institutional crisis. Who for Matignon? Lecornu, an opening on the left, or a new bet? Follow the latest news with CL.

But another name was circulating behind the scenes on Thursday: that of Jean-Louis Borloo, former minister under Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy with whom he had notably organized the Grenelle Environment Forum. Now aged 74, the founder of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), who was mayor of Valenciennes for a long time, is due to speak Thursday afternoon at the Intercommunalités congress in Toulouse.

Olivier Faure’s Socialist Party continues to demand cohabitation with a left-wing personality in Matignon.

La France insoumise, which demands the resignation of Emmanuel Macron, promises to censor “any grand coalition government”.

As for the Rassemblement National, it is categorical: “I will censor all governments until I obtain dissolution”, warned Marine Le Pen.