French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the nomination of a candidate for prime minister made by the French left on Tuesday (23).
According to information from the newspaper Le Monde, Macron stated in an interview with the broadcaster France 2 that the country’s current interim government will remain in office until mid-August, due to the Paris Olympics, which will begin on Friday (26) and end on the 11th of next month.
“The issue is not a name nominated by a political party,” Macron said. “We need to focus on the Games until mid-August. From then on, it will be my responsibility to appoint a prime minister with the broadest possible support.”
About an hour earlier, the four-party left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) alliance had nominated Lucie Castets, the finance director of Paris city hall, as its candidate for prime minister after weeks of deadlock.
The NFP won the early parliamentary elections in France, held on June 30 and June 7, but did not obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly (half the seats in the house, plus one).
As the NFP, Macron’s coalition, which came second in the election, and the right-wing nationalist party National Rally, which came third, are not in dialogue with each other, France is experiencing a political crisis, as any name that Macron nominates to be prime minister and form the government will be subject to being overthrown by a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly.
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