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History

2025

Defence Minister Sebastian Lecorneau takes over as Prime Minister

On September 9, 2025, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Sebastian Lecorneux - a former defense minister and close ally - as the new prime minister. On October 6 of the same year, Lekornu (translated from Fr. - "horned") was forced to resign.

Sebastian Lecornew

On October 11, Macron re-instructed Lecorne to form a new cabinet and pass the 2026 budget through a split parliament.

Parliament resigns Prime Minister Francois Bayrou

On September 8, 2025, the French parliament dismissed Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who received only 194 votes out of 558.

Parliament resigns Francois Bayrou

Bayrou's plan to save €44 billion in 2026 to reduce the budget deficit (5.4% of GDP) was rejected by both major opposition blocs.

Even the prime minister's allies were not ready to support cutting support for the poor - since there were no guarantees whether this measure would lead to a tangible improvement in the economic situation. But it would almost certainly lead to riots in the streets.

Bayrou's name sounded in context of Betarram school paedophile scandal

In addition to all this, Bayrou undermined his personal confidence: his name again sounded in the context of the pedophile scandal at the Betarram school (1995-99), which was loudly talked about in France in 2023-25 after hundreds of testimonies of the victims.

Buying Atos' supercomputing business, to save the company from collapse

On June 2, 2025, it became known about the decision of the French government to acquire the supercomputing business of the IT corporation Atos, which was in a difficult financial situation. The transaction value will be €410 million. Read more here.

2024

Francois Bayrou named prime minister

In December 2024, French President Macron appointed centrist François Bayrou, who heads the centrist Democratic Movement party known as MoDem, as France's new prime minister.

Bayrou must quickly pass the 2025 budget to secure at least indirect support from some of Macron's political opponents. Investors are closely monitoring the situation after months of political turmoil and uncertainty caused French asset sales, at one point raising the country's borrowing costs to. Greece

Michel Barnier named PM

Former European Commissioner and former French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has been appointed the new Prime Minister of France.

Barnier served as Foreign Minister in 2004-2005, and he also headed the EU Brexit negotiating team.

Gay Gabriel Attal at 34 became the youngest Prime Minister of France, and his partner headed the Foreign Ministry

In January 2024 France , President Emmanuel Macron appointed a 34-year-old associate as the country's prime minister to give new impetus to his administration months before the European Parliament elections, the president's Renaissance party said. Jewish-born homosexual Gabriel Attal became the youngest prime minister in French history. Previously, he had experience cohabiting with the leader of the Renaissance party, Stefan Sezhurne.

On January 11, Emmanuel Macron announced the composition of the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Some politicians remained in their places, but there are also changes: for example, Stefan Sezhurne was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Sezhurne's political career began in 2014 under the leadership of Macron, who was then the Minister of Economy of France, and subsequently continued to rotate in his orbit - as part of the Youth with Macron project, his election campaign and, finally, headed the Renaissance party created by him in 2016. In the role of the MEP, according to his entourage, he showed himself as an "unsurpassed negotiator."

Stefan Sejournay

As minister, Sezhurne is going to work in three directions: strengthening the authority of international organizations (NATO, UN, WTO, WHO), developing assistance to civilians in crisis zones (Ukraine and the Middle East) and forming cooperation between European countries in the field of security and defense - including the revival of relations between France, Germany and Poland within the Weimar Triangle.

Given that Attal and Sezhurne lived together for several years, there is a conflict of interest. But the French media, it seems, have not yet fully decided how to treat this Santa Barbara, and publish conflicting information about the status of relations between politicians, wrote the Rybar channel.

2023: French Economy Minister Bruno writes erotic stories in his office

In April 2023, it became known that French Economy Minister Bruno was writing erotic stories in his office. Among his lines: "She rushed to the bed. She showed me the brown bulge of her anus. Are you coming, Oscar? I was more excited than ever before. "

2020: Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon goes to prison for embezzlement of state funds

At the end of June 2020, former French Prime Minister François Fillon and his Welsh-born wife Penelope were sentenced to prison for embezzlement of public funds. Read more here.