The names of French Prime Minister Macron Loyalist as a financial minister in an attempt to pass the budget

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The Prime Minister in France, Sebastian Lecorno, chose former Minister of Industry, Roland Leskor, to be the new finance minister, as he tends to familiar faces of previous governments to pass a budget in the broken National Assembly.

Lescure, an early supporter of President Emmanuel Macron in 2017, will be assigned to offer the Lecornu budget for 2026, after former Prime Minister Francois Payro was dropped because of his approaches to reduce the deficit.

Lecornu promised “rupture” with the previous Macron governments, but the 18 -thirds of the ministers announced on Sunday came from the Bayrou Cabinet, while many new arrivals appeared in the previous Macron departments.

Leskor, the former CEO of La Caes, one of the largest pension funds in North America, entered politics in 2017 as a deputy with the Macron Central Party in Marx and worked as a minister in the governments of Illisabeth Borni and the governments of Gabriel Altalal.

Lecornu has also turned into the former Macron Finance Minister, Bruno Lemaire, to take over as Minister of Defense. Bruno Retario, head of the right -wing right -wing party in the field of Républicains, was restored, while Bordi recovered his position in education.

Lecornu will designate a second list from the deputy minister after delivering a public speech on Tuesday, when the opposition can call a vote without confidence.

“These ministers will have the difficult task of giving the country a budget before December 31 and the service of France,” Lecorno said at X on Sunday evening. “They accepted this, knowing that they will have concessions with the opposition.”

The new Prime Minister began a wide range of discussions with other parties, unions and business representatives since his appointment by Macron last month.

He has already rejected some less popular measures for Petro, including plans to cancel two banking holidays.

But passing the budget successfully seems a difficult task in the same extent Lay It was also proven to his direct ancestors, Michelle Barnier and Bayro.

The Parliament of France was deeply divided since the 2024 parliamentary elections divided them into three blocs: the right -wing right -wing national parties, and the moderate and intermediate parties that support the government.

Lecornu said that he will only make slight adjustments to the total deficit targets set by Bayrou, as he told the Le Parisien newspaper last week that it would allow the deficit to reach 4.7 percent by 2026, compared to the previous rate of 4.6 percent.

However, in one of the signs of a new approach, Lecorno said on Friday that he would not use a constitutional condition that enables the government to impose legislation such as budget without a vote in Parliament and meet the demand for the left parties. “This is the real rupture,” he said.

But Lecornu and Lescure will have to continue negotiating budget measures with the Left Socialist Party, which is 66 deputies in Parliament, which ranges between 577 members.

Lecornu has ruled out socialist demands such as suspending pension reforms to raise the retirement age to 64 and a large new tax on the wealthy.

In an interview published on Saturday evening by Lu Parisien, the President of the Socialist Party, Olivier, said immediately after the measures laid by Lecorno were a “copy paste” for those who proposed by Bayro, and the Socialists were ready to call a vote of lack of confidence if they were not satisfied with the proposals on Tuesday.