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France’s President Emmanuel Macron is facing pressure from opposition groups in the National Assembly to finally appoint a new Prime Minister now that the Paris Olympics are over, but no clear candidate has emerged. Outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has written a letter to several factions in the legislature, excluding Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) and the far-left France Unbowed (LFI).
In the letter, Attal calls for an alliance to form a working majority to select the next prime minister. Such an alliance would exclude the RN, which won the most votes of any single party in the July parliamentary elections, and the LFI, which won the most votes of the parties within the far-left New Popular Front (NFP) bloc.
