First Lecornu government
The first Lecornu government was the forty-seventh government of France. It was formed in September 2025 after President Emmanuel Macron appointed Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister on 9 September, replacing François Bayrou, who had been removed from office by a failed motion of confidence. The list of ministers was announced on 5 October.
Lecornu resigned less than 14 hours after presenting his cabinet on 6 October, 27 days after his appointment. His government became the shortest-lived one in French history. On 10 October, Lecornu was re-appointed as Prime Minister.
Formation
After 26 days, the composition of the government was announced, with most of the ministers retaining their portfolios from the Bayrou government. As well as the continuing ministers, some other deputies from President Macron's Ensemble coalition were added, with former ministers Eric Woerth and Bruno Le Maire receiving portfolios again.Out of 18 nominations, 4 are members of The Republicans, and 8 of them are former ministers from the more right-leaning factions of the Ensemble coalition. Despite this, Bruno Retailleau retaining the Ministry of the Interior, declared the same evening that the composition of the government "doesn't reflect the break" desired by The Republicans, who demanded a third of the ministries.
Shortly after the nomination, the various leaders of the left-wing parties making up the New Popular Front expressed their outrage against the new cabinet: Fabien Roussel called it a "middle finger to the French" whilst Jean-Luc Mélenchon described it as a "parade of LR and former LR revenants"; Marine Tondelier described the nominations as a "bonus for incompetence" and a "contempt for democracy", and Olivier Faure speaks of it as a complete "Panini album of the Sarkozy/Fillon government".
For the far-right, Jordan Bardella also criticised the composition of the government, whilst Éric Ciotti also invoked the image of a "middle finger".
Resignation
On 6 October 2025, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and his cabinet resigned just one day after being formally appointed by President Emmanuel Macron. The resignation came amid widespread political backlash over the composition of the new government, which included several figures closely associated with Macron’s previous administrations, and escalating tensions with Les Républicains, led by Bruno Retailleau. Lecornu had pledged to avoid using Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to push the 2026 budget through Parliament, instead advocating for a negotiated compromise. He also faced criticism for proposing a scaled-down version of the planned “Zucman tax” on wealth, limited to certain financial holdings. In his resignation statement, Lecornu cited the “absence of conditions necessary to govern” in a fragmented parliament. Following his departure, opposition parties called for early legislative elections, and reports suggested that President Macron was considering dissolving the National Assembly.The Lecornu government became the shortest in French history, lasting only 14 hours between the appointment of its ministers and its resignation. It notably beat the previous records held by Frédéric François-Marsal in 1924, Édouard Herriot in 1926 and Henri Queuille in 1950, which all only lasted two days before resigning or being removed by Parliament.