Second Lecornu government
The second Lecornu government is the forty-eighth and incumbent government of France. It was formed on 10 October 2025 after President Emmanuel Macron re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister following the collapse of his previous government.
Formation
Background
On 9 September 2025, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Lecornu as Prime Minister following the fall of the Bayrou government. Upon announcing his government on 5 October, various left-wing and far-right parties criticised the composition, as most of the ministers from the previous government retained their portfolios.Lecornu resigned less than a day after announcing his cabinet, making his first government the shortest-lived government in French history. Macron reappointed Lecornu as Prime Minister on 10 October.
Reactions
La France Insoumise 's Manuel Bompard said that he considered the reappointment humiliating and vowed to impeach President Macron and file a motion of no confidence against Lecornu's second government. The French Communist Party 's Fabien Roussel called for a snap election. The Ecologists, LFI and PCF will support the motion. The Socialist Party's Pierre Jouvet said that a motion of no confidence was not ruled out because no agreement was reached with the government.The Republicans and the Union of Democrats and Independents said they would not join the coalition. As a result, ministers appointed by Lecornu from The Republicans were expelled from the party.
National Rally's Jordan Bardella deemed the reappointment shameful for France and democracy, saying that the National Rally would file a motion of no confidence. The Union of the Right for the Republic's Éric Ciotti would support the motion. He called on his former right-wing colleagues to join him to bring about great change, and welcomed them like a family.