French President Emmanuel Macron officially accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
Emmanuel Macron officially accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday evening.
Attal and his cabinet will remain in place during the next Paris Olympics, while a new head of government will be appointed.
The former prime minister and his cabinet will be responsible only for ensuring the continuity of the state as a caretaker government.
In principle, no political action can be taken by the interim government during this interim period.
Even if this situation could work in the transition phase, it would clearly pose a democratic problem if it continued for long, especially since the negotiations on the replacement of the prime minister after the French legislative elections were fraught with pitfalls.
The left alliance still cannot find a name for the next prime minister
The New People’s Front (NFP), the leftist alliance that won the most seats in the legislative elections, is clearly showing its divisions and its inability to compromise in any form.
On Monday evening, the Socialists, Communists and Greens agreed on a “joint candidate from civil society, Laurence Tubiana”.
Ms. Tubiana is a diplomat and economist, one of the key players in the development of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
But his candidacy was rejected by France Insoumise (LFI), the main party in the left-wing alliance.
On Tuesday morning, La France insoumise coordinator Manuel Bompard dismissed the candidacy as “not serious”.
Some party MPs believe Ms Tubiana is too close to Emmanuel Macron after she signed a column calling for a coalition with Macron’s party.
His candidacy, in the eyes of the Parti de la France insoumise, would be a “rejection of the program” presented by the New Popular Front.