{"id":90773,"date":"2025-09-12T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90773"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:02:39","slug":"frances-new-pm-tasked-with-forging-consensus-on-a-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/frances-new-pm-tasked-with-forging-consensus-on-a-2026-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s new PM tasked with forging consensus on a 2026 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k3WyNi2JhNudyGDOMzk\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has picked defence chief S\u00e9bastien Lecornu as his new prime minister, a day after Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou was voted out by parliament. The 39-year-old Lecornu&#8217;s immediate priority will be to try to forge consensus on a new budget, before forming a government. If this year&#8217;s budget were to be carried over into next year, France&#8217;s fiscal deficit, already the highest in the EU, is predicted to widen further. <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has picked defence chief S\u00e9bastien Lecornu as his new prime minister, a day after Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou was voted out by parliament. The 39-year-old Lecornu&#8217;s immediate priority will be to try to forge consensus on a new budget, before forming a government. If this year&#8217;s budget were to be carried over into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38376,403],"class_list":["post-90773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2026-budget","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90775,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773\/revisions\/90775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}