France’s new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has resigned, the Élysée Palace announced on Monday.
The Élysée Palace disclosed that Lecornu submitted his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron who accepted it.
Nearly four weeks after his appointment, Lecornu had just unveiled the allocation of key ministries on Sunday evening.
The leader of the conservative Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, expressed his dissatisfaction with the composition of the new Cabinet and called a crisis meeting for Monday.
As a result, there was speculation about a possible withdrawal of the conservatives from the coalition with Macron’s centrist camp which lacks a parliamentary majority.
Lecornu had been scheduled to make a government statement to the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly and reveal the remaining Cabinet positions on Tuesday.