French newly-appointed PM Lecornu consults French political parties in Paris

Member of parliament Boris Vallaud, president of the Socialistes et apparentes (members of Socialist Party – SOC) parliamentary group, Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the French Socialist Party, French Senator Patrick Kanner and Johanna Rolland, Mayor of Nantes and French Socialist Party’s First National Secretary Delegate, talk to journalists after a meeting with the newly-named French Prime Minister as part of a series of consultations with political parties at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, September 17, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson