FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was set to begin a round of consultations with political leaders, hoping to put together a viable ruling coalition after last month's inconclusive election.
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was set to begin a round of consultations with political leaders, hoping to put together a viable ruling coalition after last month's inconclusive election.A full six weeks after a snap election in which Macron lost his parliamentary majority, he has still not named a new prime minister, whose first major task will be to submit next year's budget plan to the National Assembly.
'Allies of Macron — who said after the election that 'nobody won' — have argued that the leftist bloc is too weak to claim the prime minister's post, and are hoping instead to form a majority around a centrist figure.The current period is the longest France has ever been without a leader of government following a legislative election, after Macron said he would not prioritize the task of finding one during the Paris Olympic Games, which ended on August 11.
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