(26 Aug 2024)
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Paris – 26 August 2024
1. Marine Le Pen, head of the far-righ National Rally group at the National Assembly, and Jordan Bardella, leader of the National Rally party, arriving at Elysee Palace
2. Le Pen and Bardella coming out of Elysee and leaving
3. President of the National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet arriving at the Elysee Palace
STORYLINE:
After the excitement of the Paris Olympics and a Mediterranean vacation, now President Emmanuel Macron has to figure out how to make France governable again.
Faced with a hung parliament, social tensions and ballooning debt, Macron kicked off talks Friday with key political players in a bid to choose a new prime minister who would form a government and end the deadlock created by snap legislative elections last month.
National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella arrived for talks at the Elysee Palace on Monday.
Macron’s office said he will name a prime minister based on these consultations, which are aimed at “moving towards the broadest and most stable majority possible.”
Members of the left-wing New Popular Front coalition that won the most seats pressured Macron for a quick decision.
Their nominee for prime minister, little-known civil servant Lucie Castets, said after Friday’s meetings in the Elysee Palace that she was ready to govern, and ready for compromise to get things done.
But the party only has about a third of the seats in the National Assembly, France’s powerful lower house of parliament, and no party has a majority.
Macron’s centrist alliance came in second and the far-right National Rally came in third.
There’s no rulebook that requires Macron to name a candidate from the party that won the most seats, or lays out a timeline for a decision.
The absence of any dominant political bloc is unprecedented in France’s modern Republic.
As president, Macron has sole power to name the prime minister according to the French Constitution.
The French president said last month he would keep the outgoing centrist government on a purely caretaker role to “handle current affairs,” notably during the Olympics that ended on Aug. 11.
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