Emmanuel Macron has “accepted” the resignation of the Attal government, now confined to “dealing with current affairs”

At the end of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, July 16, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal submitted his resignation to the Head of State, which was accepted by Emmanuel Macron, the Elysée announced in the evening. This government will continue to ensure “handling current affairs until the appointment of a new government”still according to the Elysée. “In order for this period to end as quickly as possible, it is up to the republican forces to work together to build a rally around projects and actions in the service of French women and men.”also affirmed the presidency of the Republic.

Gabriel Attal had already declared that his government, which had resigned, would assume “until the last minute” there “continuity of the state”, especially during the Paris Olympics. Tuesday morning was the first Council of Ministers since the New Popular Front came out on top in the legislative elections, with a new Assembly divided into three blocs, the left, the presidential camp and the RN, all deprived of a clear majority.

This new configuration should make it possible to ensure “in the name of continuity, the minimal functioning of the State”, explains a note from the general secretariat of the government dated July 2. The situation also offers ministers elected as deputies the possibility of regaining their parliamentary mandate to participate in the election for the presidency of the National Assembly on Thursday, then on Friday and Saturday in the allocation of strategic posts in the Palais Bourbon. A transitional period which “could last a few weeks”declared Emmanuel Macron during the last Council of Ministers, according to Gabriel Attal, guest on TF1’s 8 p.m. news on Tuesday.