Towards the next government: Emmanuel Macron consults the political parties

Following the results of the early parliamentary elections in July, President Emmanuel Macron is consulting the political parties with a view to forming the next government.

More than a month after accepting the resignation of his Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, and following the end of the Olympic truce, Emmanuel Macron today began a round of consultations with the political parties to form the next government.
The legislative elections, the second round of which was held on 6 and 7 July, failed to produce an absolute majority. The NFP became the largest political bloc in terms of the number of elected members in the Assembly, ahead of Ensemble, which remained above Rassemblement National.

The current government has therefore been dealing with current affairs for 38 days.

On the morning of Friday 23 August, it was the NFP that was the first to be received by the President of the Republic. The socialist, rebel, communist and ecologist leaders were accompanied by Lucie Castets, current Director of Finance at Paris City Council and candidate of the left-wing coalition for Matignon.

The Renaissance, Horizons, Modem and UDI parties were then consulted over lunch. Gabriel Attal defended ‘the appointment of a Prime Minister who does not come from the central bloc’ in a letter to the MPs in the Ensemble group. In mid-August, Renaissance, Emmanuel Macron’s party, approached the various political groupings, with the exception of the RN and LFI, to submit an ‘action pact for the French’, with six priority areas: restoring public accounts, defending secularism, purchasing power, the environment, security and public services.

On Saturday 23rd afternoon, the Les Républicains party visited the Elysée Palace. Laurent Wauquiez had previously rejected a plan for a ‘government coalition’, proposing instead a ‘legislative pact’ without a government agreement with the presidential majority.

Consultations with the Rassemblement National will continue until early next week.