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Appointment of Prime Minister: Emmanuel Macron to meet party leaders from August 23
Appointment of Prime Minister: Emmanuel Macron to meet party leaders from August 23
(France 2)
Five weeks after the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday, August 16, that he would relaunch discussions on a future government. He will meet with political leaders in a week, including Lucie Castets, proposed by the NFP for the post of Prime Minister.
After a rich Olympic sequence and a few days of vacation, Emmanuel Macron takes back control. France is still without a government, so the head of state is calling meetings with party and parliamentary group leaders starting on August 23. The goal, according to the Élysée, is to find a successor to Gabriel Attal at Matignon. For the time being, two names are circulating in the circles of the presidential party: Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand. Two names that are poorly viewed on the left.
The New Popular Front (NFP) persists and signs: the Prime Minister can only be, according to it, Lucie Castets. But before finding a Prime Minister, it is still necessary to find a majority in the National Assembly to support him. More than ever, the balance is proving very difficult to find for the executive, and the political impasse increasingly likely.
