{"id":2499478,"date":"2025-10-16T06:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-survives-no-confidence-vote-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:23:33","slug":"embattled-french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-survives-no-confidence-vote-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-survives-no-confidence-vote-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled French PM S\u00e9bastien Lecornu survives no-confidence vote in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fembattled-french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-survives-no-confidence-vote-in-parliament%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2499478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu survived a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly, preventing the collapse of his fragile new government and avoiding immediate snap elections. The no-confidence motions were brought by Macron&#8217;s political adversaries-the far-left France Unbowed party and Marine Le Pen&#8217;s far-right National Rally-but neither secured enough votes. Lecornu managed to gain support partly by offering to suspend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/strong-turnout-in-frances-high-stakes-elections-as-support-for-the-far-right-grows-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Strong turnout in France\u2019s high...stakes elections as support for the far right grows ... Washington Examiner\">unpopular pension reform<\/a> that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64.Despite this victory, Lecornu faces the challenging task of securing parliamentary approval for France&#8217;s 2026 budget without resorting to special constitutional powers previously used by Macron to push through controversial reforms. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-johnson-won-over-gop-holdouts-to-secure-a-second-term-as-speaker-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"How Johnson won over GOP holdouts to secure a second term as speaker ... Washington Examiner\">upcoming budget negotiations<\/a> are expected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >contentious amid deep parliamentary divisions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-leaders-declare-coup-in-central-african-nation-vow-to-dissolve-all-institutions-of-the-republic\/\" title=\"Military leaders stage coup in Central African nation, pledge to dismantle all state institutions.\">ongoing political instability<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Embattled French PM S&eacute;bastien Lecornu survives no-confidence vote in Parliament<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>PARIS (AP) &mdash; French Prime Minister S&eacute;bastien Lecornu survived&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-macron-lecornu-le-pen-politics-7f913c28e17ebaaca830389d257047bf\">a vote of no-confidence<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday that could have toppled his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-macron-lecornu-politics-prime-minister-df552bdfaaa09a3c1cb14d4369e75df4\">fragile new government<\/a>&nbsp;and plunged France deeper into political chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly vote clears the way for the embattled Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 budget for the European Union&rsquo;s second-largest economy through Parliament&rsquo;s powerful but bitterly divided lower house before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3852634\/israel-receives-remains-two-more-hostages\/\">Israel receives remains of two more hostages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3851629\/french-royal-citizens-embrace-monarchy-parliament-collapse\/\">French royal urges citizens to embrace &#8216;monarchical heritage&#8217; as parliament is on &#8216;verge of collapse&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3851225\/syria-ahmed-al-sharaa-meets-putin-moscow-assad-haunts\/\">Syria&#8217;s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow, but Assad haunts event from the shadows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Lecornu&rsquo;s survival also spares any immediate need for President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/emmanuel-macron\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a>&nbsp;to again dissolve the National Assembly and call snap legislative elections, a hazardous option that the French leader had signaled he might take if Lecornu fell.<\/p>\n<p>The close ally of the French president faced two no-confidence motions filed by Macron&rsquo;s fiercest opponents &mdash; the hard-left France Unbowed party and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/marine-le-pen\">Marine Le Pen<\/a>&nbsp;of the far-right National Rally and her allies in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The 577-seat chamber voted on the France Unbowed motion first &mdash; and it fell short, with 271 lawmakers supporting it. It had needed a majority of 289 votes to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are now voting on Le Pen&rsquo;s second motion but it is thought even less likely to succeed, because the far-right leader&rsquo;s opponents on the left are not expected to support it.<\/p>\n<p>But Lecornu isn&rsquo;t out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n<p>To get the votes he needed, Lecornu dangled the possibility of rolling back one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-pension-macron-unions-protests-97c21feda260d35f211c2eef7fd73143\">the flagship<\/a>&nbsp;but most unpopular reforms of Macron&rsquo;s presidency, which will gradually raise France&rsquo;s retirement age from 62 to 64.<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu&rsquo;s proposed suspension of the 2023 pension reform helped convince some opposition lawmakers to grudgingly decide not to back the efforts to topple him, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>But they could change tack and support any future no-confidence motions if they don&rsquo;t get what they want in the budget negotiations that are sure to be fractious.<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-prime-minister-budget-no-confidence-vote-c4afc765bac95794e329ecc95297331e\">has promised<\/a>&nbsp;not to use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-pensions-special-constitutional-power-explained-8ac5128e6bec83129d952a458cbbef81\">a special constitutional power<\/a>&nbsp;to railroad the budget through Parliament without lawmakers&rsquo; approval &mdash; which was the tool that Macron&rsquo;s government employed to impose the 2023 pension reform despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/macron-protests-retirement-paris-garbage-french-revolution-4d00958cfbb1035dd8a6c3dc645a1362\">a firestorm of protests.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building consensus in Parliament for tax hikes, spending cuts and other budget measures to start reining in France&rsquo;s ballooning state deficit and debt promises to be extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French PM S\u00e9bastien Lecornu survives no-confidence vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2499479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25289279058770.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[46189,65316,46921,5207,65315],"class_list":["post-2499478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-french-politics","tag-government-stability","tag-no-confidence-vote","tag-parliament","tag-sebastien-lecornu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25289279058770.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499482,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499478\/revisions\/2499482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}