(7 Jul 2024)
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Paris – 7 July 2024
1. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arriving at briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Gabriel Attal, French Prime Minister:
"My involvement in this campaign was a duty. From the beginning of this campaign I had warned about three risks: the risk of an absolute majority lead by the France Insoumise (party), the risk of an absolute majority lead by the National Rally (party), and the risk of the disappearing of a movement that embodies our ideas and our values. The French have today cast these three risks aside."
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3. SOUNDBITE (French) Gabriel Attal, French Prime Minister:
"Tonight, the political faction I represented in this campaign, even though it performed three times better than predicted in the last weeks, did not attain a majority. Thus, loyal to the republican tradition and in tune with my principles, I will hand the President of the Republic my resignation tomorrow morning."
4. Various of Attal leaving briefing
STORYLINE:
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said Sunday he would resign after a leftist coalition surged to the lead in legislative elections.
Attal said he will remain in the post during the upcoming Paris Olympics and for as long as needed, given that polling projections show that no party has won an outright majority.
There likely will be weeks of intense political negotiations to choose a new prime minister and form a government.
The leftist coalition dominated in the parliamentary vote, followed by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists, with the far right in third.
The results were a defeat for Macron, with no party in a majority.
The unpopular president risks being forced to share power with a prime minister opposed to his pro-business, pro-European Union policies.
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