{"id":41104,"date":"2024-01-09T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41104"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:20:19","slug":"french-to-name-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/01\/09\/french-to-name-new-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"French to name new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France\u2019s prime minister,&nbsp;<strong>\u00c9lisabeth Borne<\/strong>, resigned on Monday after days of increasingly feverish speculation about an imminent government reshuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president,\u00a0Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking to give a new impetus to his second mandate before European parliament elections and the Paris Olympics this summer, thanked Borne for her \u201cexemplary work in the service of the nation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her resignation letter, Borne said it was \u201cmore necessary than ever to continue the reforms\u201d being pursued by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted to tell you how passionate I have been about this mission,\u201d she wrote, adding that she was \u201cguided by the constant concern, which we share, to achieve rapid and tangible results for our fellow citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nevertheless, she made it clear the decision to go had not been hers and that she had taken note of the president\u2019s wish to appoint a new prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the French system, the president appoints the prime minister but cannot dismiss them from the post. Instead, they must ask for their resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reshuffle comes five months before the European parliament elections, with Eurosceptics expected to make record gains at a time of widespread public discontent over surging living costs and the failure of European governments to curb immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opinion polls show Macron\u2019s party trailing that of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen by eight to 10 points before the June vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s prime minister,&nbsp;\u00c9lisabeth Borne, resigned on Monday after days of increasingly feverish speculation about an imminent government reshuffle. The president,\u00a0Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking to give a new impetus to his second mandate before European parliament elections and the Paris Olympics this summer, thanked Borne for her \u201cexemplary work in the service of the nation\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11555,6557,524,9505,2404,5575,6351,2264,6094,5803,414,5904,1707,1253,1198,2627,3805,3174,11495,9089,13301,7333,10415,594],"class_list":["post-41104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-citizens","tag-elisabeth-borne","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-european","tag-european-parliament","tag-france","tag-french","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-le-pen","tag-macron","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-parliament","tag-pm","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-reforms","tag-reshuffle","tag-results","tag-summer","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41106,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41104\/revisions\/41106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}