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French President Macron rules out left-wing prime minister amid crisis

French President Macron rules out left-wing prime minister amid crisis

No single group won a majority in the elections, with the NFP winning more than 190 seats, President Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition winning 160 seats and the far-right National Rally (RN) winning 140 seats.

Since then, the caretaker government has drawn the ire of the NFP, even during the Paris Olympics.

President Macron said talks on a new government had been held since the election and would continue.

“My responsibility is to ensure that the country is not locked down or weakened,” he said in a statement Monday.

“The Socialists, the Greens and the Communists have not yet proposed ways to cooperate with other political forces. Now they must do so,” he added.

But he made a conspicuous absence of mention of the hard-left Movement for French Independence (LFI), one of the main elements that make up the NFP.

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