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French President Emmanuel Macron used his New Year's address to the French people to admit that his decision to dissolve parliament and call early elections, plunging France into a political crisis, had failed.
"I have to admit tonight that the dissolution has brought, for the moment, more division in Parliament than solutions for the French," he said, emphasizing that he would take full responsibility for this matter.
Since the dissolution of Parliament, Macron has had to rotate through three prime ministers – with Gabriel Attal followed by Michel Barnier followed by the current prime minister, François Bayrou – in an attempt to find a consensus builder who might be able to overcome parliamentary divisions, pass a 2025 budget and avoid the risk of another government collapse.
Macron last month blamed extremist parties for toppling his government and "causing chaos" across France, defiantly declaring he would not step down after then-prime minister Barnier resigned following a no-confidence vote.
A coalition of the far-right National Rally and the left-wing New Popular Front toppled the former Brexit negotiator's government - which lasted just 90 days and was the shortest administration in modern French history.
Macron refused to resign after the defeat, declaring that 'the extreme right and the extreme left have united in an anti-republican front'.
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