The deepening political paralysis in France, where President Emmanuel Macron has struggled with a succession of minority governments consequent to a fractured parliament thrown up in the snap July 2024 general elections, could not have shone a less favourable light on the machinations of mainstream parties.

Underscoring the gravity of the crisis, on October 6, Sebastien Lecornu, a confidant of President Macron and former defence minister, resigned as Prime Minister, only to be reinstated in a caretaker role to that high office on Friday. The episode followed the collapse of the cabinet Lecornu had put together a few hours earlier last week, the shortest-lived in modern France, prompting his resignation just 27 days after he originally assumed the mantle in........

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