Published 16/07/2024 16:54 | Edited 16/07/2024 19:06
The New Popular Front (NFP) is struggling to decide on the bloc’s candidate for prime minister in France. The left-wing alliance won the most seats in parliamentary elections but did not secure an absolute majority.
The NFP had announced that it would present a name by this Friday (19), but went back on its word, admitting the impasse that keeps the country in political limbo. “I prefer not to set a deadline,” Manuel Bompard, coordinator of the La France Insoumise (LFI, in French) party, told the TF1 channel, noting that “perhaps more time is needed.”
“Just because the prime minister issue hasn’t been decided yet doesn’t mean there hasn’t been progress,” Green leader Marine Tondelier said. “It’s normal that it takes a little time.”
The biggest frictions are between the LFI, the main party of the alliance, and the socialists, after this heterogeneous coalition came together to face the far right in the second round of the legislative elections.
With just days to go before the start of the new legislature, President Emmanuel Macron’s entourage has been working to form an alternative majority, and an agreement with the right could allow his bloc to overtake the NFP in terms of seats.
On Tuesday (16), Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, but asked his party colleague to remain in office until a new government is formed, according to a statement from the Élysée Palace.
The note says that, for a new government to be formed as soon as possible, “it is the duty of the republican forces to work together to build a union around projects and actions in the service of the French and France”.
According to the AFP agency, during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, Macron hinted that the interim government could “last some time”, probably until the end of the Paris Olympic Games, which begin on July 26 and end on August 11.
Source: vermelho.org.br
