By Laurent Geslin
( EurActiv ) — The resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, one of Emmanuel Macron’s few remaining loyalists, has left the president increasingly isolated in what many in Paris call a “permanent state of instability.”
The French president now faces three options: resigning, dissolving the National Assembly, or appointing a prime minister from outside his own camp.
An unlikely resignation
Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused Macron on Monday of being “the source of the chaos,” demanding his immediate resignation, and urged parliament to consider a motion of impeachment filed in September by 104 MPs from his movement, the Communists, and the Greens.
The motion, however, has virtually no chance of success as it would require two-thirds suppor