French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu submitted his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday (06), reports BFM TV..
The French president has already accepted, according to the Elysée Palace in a statement, plunging France into a new political impasse.
Sebastien Lecornu took over less than a month ago, on September 9 this year.
According to a News to the MinuteLecornu's resignation paved the way for different scenarios, including the calling of early elections in France.
The ministers in office canceled their schedules today, some of them outside Paris, like Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, to await the outcome of the new situation.
The head of the Gallic government was under fire from the opposition and the right after revealing part of his government team on Sunday evening.
Behind Lecornu's surprising resignation is the position of one of his allies, the conservative Republicans party, whose leader, Bruno Retailleau, on Sunday night expressed his dissatisfaction with the composition of the new government, in which he had hoped to have a greater presence. Retailleau had called a meeting of his party for today to decide whether to leave the government.
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