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Translated by: Flutura Gashi-Mehmeti
- August 27, 2024 15:37
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French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not agree to a government led by the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) alliance, which won a majority of seats in last month's legislative elections.
The four-party coalition won a majority of seats in last month's parliamentary elections and has said its candidate, Paris civil servant Lucie Castets, should be appointed prime minister, even though they do not have the necessary majority, the BBC reports.
Macron has said that France needs institutional stability and that the left would not be able to win a vote of confidence in parliament, the BBC reports.
The NFP, which fielded relatively unknown civil servant Castets as its prime ministerial candidate, responded by calling for street protests and Macron's impeachment.
Macron, whose centrists were beaten to second in July, has said he would begin new consultations with party leaders on Tuesday, and urged the left to cooperate with other political forces.
He has called on three of the four left-wing parties, the Socialists, the Greens and the Communists, to work with "other political forces" to find a way out of the impasse, without mentioning the radical left "France Unbowed".
However, all three parties rejected his request.
No group managed to win a majority in the election, as the NFP won more than 190 seats, Macron's centrist alliance 160 and the far-right National Rally (RN) 140.
Macron has held talks on a new government since the election and has said he will continue to do so.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the country is not blocked or weakened," he said in a statement on Monday.
"The Socialist Party, the Greens and the Communists have not yet proposed ways to cooperate with other political forces. Now it is up to them to do so," he added.
The left-wing coalition has previously refused to take part in any future consultations unless Ms Castets' candidacy for prime minister is discussed. However, Macron's party and the "National Gathering" have vowed to reject the candidates from the NFP.
After meeting Macron for talks on Monday, National Rally leaders Marine le Pen and Jordan Bardella described the NFP as a "danger" for France.
Among other names discussed in political circles are former Socialist interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand, who is a regional leader from the center-right Republicans.