MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. The departure of yet another government brings France to a standstill; Hamas is losing support among the Palestinian people; and the European Parliament is discussing two votes of no-confidence in the European Commission president. These stories topped Tuesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
France remains mired in a political turmoil with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu stepping down after less than a month in office. He is the seventh premier to be forced to resign under President Emmanuel Macron, Izvestia writes.
Lecornu’s resignation after 27 days of his tenure is an unprecedented event in France, political scientist Maria Frolova said. According to her, a serious political struggle around the formation of a stable parliamentary majority is the main cause. Lecornu failed to gain parliament’s backing. What triggered the most criticism was his cabinet that wasn’t much different from the previous one, which was viewed as a rejection of genuine reform.
"The causes of the crisis lie in the balance of political forces in the lower chamber of France’s parliament, which consists of deeply polarized factions. Most of them belong to the far-right and the far-left, with only a relatively small bloc supporting Macron in the center," Sergey Fyodorov, leading researcher with the Department of Social and Political Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Europe, explained.
