Prime Minister of France

The **Prime Minister of France** is the person who controls the government of France day-to-day. They are appointed by the President of France.

## Prime ministers since 1958

- Political parties

|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Portrait|rowspan=2|Prime Minister|colspan=3|Term of office|rowspan=2|Political party|rowspan=2|Government|rowspan=2|Legislature|colspan=2 rowspan=2|President|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Michel Debré <small>(1912–1996)</small>|8 January 1959|14 April 1962||Union for the New Republic||rowspan="2"|I <small>(1958)</small>|rowspan=6 style="background:; color:white;"|18|align="center" rowspan="6"|Charles de Gaulle <small>(1959–1969)</small>||||
|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|Georges Pompidou <small>(1911–1974)</small>|14 April 1962|7 December 1962|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Union for the New Republic|||||||
|7 December 1962|8 January 1966||rowspan=2|II <small>(1962)</small>||||||||||||
|8 January 1966|1 April 1967|||||||||||||||
|5 April 1967|10 July 1968||III <small>(1967)</small>|||||||||||||
||Maurice Couve de Murville <small>(1907–1999)</small>|10 July 1968|20 June 1969||Union of Democrats for the Republic||rowspan=3|IV <small>(1968)</small>||||||||
||Jacques Chaban-Delmas <small>(1915–2000)</small>|20 June 1969|6 July 1972||Union of Democrats for the Republic||rowspan="4" style="background:; color:white;"|19|rowspan="4" align="center"|Georges Pompidou <small>(1969–1974)</small>||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Pierre Messmer <small>(1916–2007)</small>|6 July 1972|5 April 1973|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Union of Democrats for the Republic|||||||
|5 April 1973|1 March 1974||rowspan=5|V <small>(1973)</small>||||||||||||
|1 March 1974|27 May 1974|||||||||||||||
||Jacques Chirac <small>(1932–2019)</small>|27 May 1974|26 August 1976||Union of Democrats for the Republic||rowspan="4" style="background:;"|20|rowspan="4" align="center"|Valéry Giscard d'Estaing <small>(1974–1981)</small>||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Raymond Barre <small>(1924–2007)</small>|26 August 1976|29 March 1977|rowspan=3||rowspan=2|Independent|||||||
|29 March 1977|31 March 1978|||||||||||||||
|31 March 1978|21 May 1981|Union for French Democracy||rowspan="2"|VI <small>(1978)</small>|||||||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Pierre Mauroy <small>(1928–2013)</small>|21 May 1981|23 June 1981|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Socialist Party||rowspan=10 style="background:;"|21|align="center" rowspan="10"|François Mitterrand <small>(1981–1995)</small>||
|23 June 1981|23 March 1983||rowspan=3|VII <small>(1981)</small>||||||||||||
|23 March 1983|17 July 1984|||||||||||||||
||Laurent Fabius <small>(1946–)</small>|17 July 1984|20 March 1986||Socialist Party|||||||||||
||Jacques Chirac <small>(1932–2019)</small>|20 March 1986|10 May 1988||Rally for the Republic||rowspan=2|VIII <small>(1986)</small>||||||||
|style="height:90px;" rowspan="2"||rowspan=2|Michel Rocard <small>(1930–2016)</small>|10 May 1988|22 June 1988|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Socialist Party|Rocard I||||||
|23 June 1988|15 May 1991|Rocard II|rowspan=3|IX <small>(1988)</small>||||||||||||
||Édith Cresson <small>(1934–)</small>|15 May 1991|2 April 1992||Socialist Party|||||||||||
||Pierre Bérégovoy <small>(1925–1993)</small>|2 April 1992|29 March 1993||Socialist Party|||||||||||
||Édouard Balladur <small>(1929–)</small>|29 March 1993|17 May 1995||Rally for the Republic||rowspan="3"|X <small>(1993)</small>||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Alain Juppé <small>(1945–)</small>|18 May 1995|7 November 1995|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Rally for the Republic||rowspan="7" style="background:; color:white;"|22|rowspan="7" align="center"|Jacques Chirac <small>(1995–2007)</small>||
|7 November 1995|3 June 1997|||||||||||||||
||Lionel Jospin <small>(1937–)</small>|3 June 1997|6 May 2002||Socialist Party||rowspan=2|XI <small>(1997)</small>||||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Jean-Pierre Raffarin <small>(1948–)</small>|7 May 2002|17 June 2002|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Liberal Democracy then Union for a Popular Movement|||||||
|17 June 2002|30 March 2004||rowspan=4|XII <small>(2002)</small>||||||||||||
|31 March 2004|31 May 2005|||||||||||||||
||Dominique de Villepin <small>(1953–)</small>|31 May 2005|15 May 2007||Union for a Popular Movement|||||||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|François Fillon <small>(1954–)</small>|17 May 2007|18 June 2007|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Union for a Popular Movement||rowspan="3" style="background:; color:white;"|23|rowspan="3" align="center"|Nicolas Sarkozy <small>(2007–2012)</small>||
|19 June 2007|13 November 2010||rowspan=3|XIII <small>(2007)</small>||||||||||||
|14 November 2010|10 May 2012|Fillon III||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Jean-Marc Ayrault <small>(1950–)</small>|15 May 2012|18 June 2012|rowspan=2||rowspan="2"|Socialist Party|Ayrault I|rowspan=5 style="background:;"|24|align="center" rowspan="5"|François Hollande <small>(2012–2017)</small>||
|18 June 2012|31 March 2014|Ayrault II|rowspan=5|XIV <small>(2012)</small>||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Manuel Valls <small>(1962–)</small>|31 March 2014|25 August 2014|rowspan=2||rowspan="2"|Socialist Party|Valls I||||||
|25 August 2014|6 December 2016|Valls II||||||||||||||
||Bernard Cazeneuve <small>(1963–)</small>|6 December 2016|15 May 2017||Socialist Party|Cazeneuve||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Édouard Philippe <small>(1970–)</small>|15 May 2017|19 June 2017|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|The Republicans Then miscellaneous right|Philippe I|rowspan=9 style="background:|25|rowspan="9" align="center"|Emmanuel Macron <small>(2017–)</small>||
|19 June 2017|3 July 2020|Philippe II|rowspan=2|XV <small>(2017)</small>||||||||||||
||Jean Castex <small>(1965–)</small>|3 July 2020|16 May 2022||La République En Marche!|Castex||||||||||
||Élisabeth Borne <small>(1961–)</small>|16 May 2022|9 January 2024||La République En Marche!|Borne|rowspan=2|XVI <small>(2022)</small>||||||||
||Gabriel Attal <small>(1989–)</small>|9 January 2024|5 September 2024||La République En Marche!|Attal||||||||||
||Michel Barnier <small>(1951–)</small>|5 September 2024|13 December 2024||The Republicans|Barnier|rowspan="3"|XVII <small>(2024)</small>||||||||
||François Bayrou <small>(1951–)</small>|13 December 2024|9 September 2025||Democratic Movement|Bayrou||||||||||
||Sébastien Lecornu <small>(1986–)</small>|9 September 2025|_Incumbent_||La République En Marche!|Lecornu||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister of France
- **native name**: __
- **insigniasize**: 155px
- **insigniacaption**: Logo of the French Prime Minister
- **image**: Portrait Sébastien Lecornu.jpg
- **incumbent**: Sébastien Lecornu
- **incumbentsince**: 9 September 2025
- **member of**: Council of Ministers of France, Council of Ministers
Conseil d'Etat (France), Council of State
 Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security (France), National Defence and Security Council
- **reports to**: President of France, President of the French Republic
and to French Parliament, Parliament
- **residence**: Hôtel de Matignon
- **seat**: Paris
- **status**: Head of government
- **appointer**: President of France
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **termlength qualified**: Remains in office while commanding the confidence of the National Assembly (France), National Assembly
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of France
- **precursor**: List of prime ministers of France, Several incarnations since the Ancien Régime
- **formation**: 4 October 1958
- **inaugural**: Michel Debré
- **salary**: €178,920 annually