Macron re-appoints Lecornu, who had resigned on Monday, as prime minister

Sébastien Lecornu on the steps of the prime minister's residence, in Paris, on October 3, 2025. CYRIL BITTON/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE

French President Emmanuel Macron re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday, October 10, the presidency said, four days after his resignation as the shortest-lived premier in modern French history.

"The president of the Republic has appointed Mr. Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister and tasked him with forming a government," the Elysée Palace said without providing further details. The president "is giving the prime minister carte blanche," said Macron's entourage.

"I accept – out of duty – the mission entrusted to me by the president," Lecornu said, in a post on X. He said he would strive "to do everything possible to give France a budget for the end of the year." Lecornu said that the new government team would have to "embody renewal" and that all appointees "must commit to disconnecting themselves from presidential ambitions for 2027."

Lecornu, 39, threw in the towel on Monday just hours after forming a largely unchanged cabinet, after criticism from inside and outside his coalition over the lack of personnel renewal. He agreed to stay on for two extra days to talk to all political parties and told French television late Wednesday that he was optimistic that a new cabinet could get a spending bill through Parliament.