The newly announced Lecornu II government immediately faces censure motions from La France Insoumise and Rassemblement National. Mathilde Panot and Marine Le Pen demand dissolution of the National Assembly for fresh elections. Ecologists will wait for the policy declaration before deciding.
The Lecornu II government, whose composition was revealed on the evening of Sunday, October 12, 2025, is already under fire. Sébastien Lecornu, reappointed Prime Minister the previous Friday after his resignation on October 6, must form a team in a fragmented National Assembly context.
From La France Insoumise (LFI), the leader of the deputies, Mathilde Panot, reacted on the social network X, estimating that this appointment signals a «Macronie increasingly isolated and shriveled». She warned the new ministers: «Advice to the newcomers: don't unpack your boxes too quickly. Censure is coming. And Macron's departure will follow». Manuel Bompard, another LFI figure, stated he wants «to end the Macron era».
The Rassemblement National (RN) takes a similar stance. Its group president, Marine Le Pen, announced the filing of a censure motion as early as Monday morning. «We will file a censure motion against it tomorrow. The President of the Republic must announce the dissolution of the National Assembly as soon as possible to allow the French people to express themselves», she wrote on X, convinced that early elections would lead to her party's victory. This reversal follows the end of the RN's institutionalization strategy, initiated after Lecornu's resignation on October 6, where Marine Le Pen ruled: «The farce has lasted long enough».
The Ecologists are more reserved. Marine Tondelier, national secretary, stated on October 12 in the «Questions politiques» program that «a dissolution won't solve much», recalling the cost of the previous one: 15 billion euros and 0.5 points of growth lost. Her group will wait for Lecornu's general policy declaration, focused on ecology, tax justice, and pensions, before voting a unitary motion if no confidence vote is proposed.
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, reacted laconically, without an explicit promise of censure.
