France mired in deadlock since president called snap elections which weakened his power and ended in a hung parliament

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that the days of France's new government are already numbered, predicting an early presidential election in a few months. In an interview with Le Parisien last week,

Le Pen said Macron was responsible for the ongoing political crisis and said he might be forced to resign as French president, a suggestion that Macron has forcefully rejected. French presidential elections are held every five years. Macron was elected in 2022 for a second mandate.

The populist French leader is becoming increasingly emboldened as Emmanuel Macron faces increasing pressure to stand down

Ever since Xavier Bertrand's candidacy for the Ministry of Justice was first mooted, the Rassemblement National has voiced criticism of the man they consider to be one of their worst political enemies.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that she was preparing for an early presidential election, saying President Emmanuel Macron's time in office was all but over.

François Bayrou, the head of the centrist MoDem group, which is allied to Macron's party, was appointed on 13.

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister in an effort to address the country's deep political crisis, after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the previous government last week (AP Video: Marine Lesprit).

France is in a constitutional crisis, in economically difficult circumstances (it suffered another debt downgrade this weekend).

President Macron reluctantly appoints a would-be ‘reconciler’ as prime minister, while rightist Marine Le Pen rides even higher.

But France's previous government collapsed this month because Marine Le Pen's far-right party and left-wing lawmakers opposed 60 billion euros in spending cuts and tax hikes in the original 2025 budget plan. Bayrou and new Finance Minister Eric Lombard are expected to scale back some of those promises, but the calculations are tough.