The prime minister of France Gabriel Attal disclosed he will put up his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Monday after his party failed to win a majority in parliamentary elections.
Attal made the comments after France’s left-wing New Popular Front coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of parliamentary elections, leading pollsters said on Sunday, putting them on track for an unexpected win over the far right National Rally (RN) party but short of an absolute majority in parliament.
Meanwhile, Gabriel Attal, a key figure in Macron’s administration, has indicated he will offer his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, highlighting the turbulence within the ruling party. However, he promised to remain committed to serving as needed, especially with the Olympics games commencing in three weeks.
An alliance of French left-wing party was on course on Sunday to become the largest parliamentary party by wining the far right and President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition, according to projected poll results. No one party won an absolute majority in the poll, plunging France into political limbo with no clear path to forming a new government, two days before a major NATO summit and three weeks before the Paris Olympics.
The left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), formed recently by an alliance of Socialists, Greens, Communists, and France Unbowed, is projected to become the largest parliamentary bloc. This surpasses both President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (NR).
Meanwhile, President Macron, who is yet to publicly comment about the poll, is calling for “prudence and analysis of the results”, said an aide, asking not to be named.
