{"id":8976,"date":"2025-12-14T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/french-pm-lecornus-budget-bet-starts-to-pay-off\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:33","slug":"french-pm-lecornus-budget-bet-starts-to-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/french-pm-lecornus-budget-bet-starts-to-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"French PM Lecornu&#8217;s budget bet starts to pay off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu at the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale in Paris, December 9, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu has won his first bet. On Tuesday, December 9, his government successfully passed a social security budget in the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale despite not having a majority. Lecornu, the self-described &#8220;weakest prime minister of the Fifth Republic,&#8221; accomplished what all his predecessors since 2022 had failed. He proved that his method, based on seeking a parliamentary compromise with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/12\/10\/french-pm-lecornu-s-budget-bet-starts-to-pay-off_6748350_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu at the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale in Paris, December 9, 2025. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}