French President Emmanuel Macron was to start efforts on Monday to extract France from its most serious political instability in decades, after the left defeated the far right in elections in which no party won an absolute majority.
The results of the legislative elections, called by Macron three years ahead of schedule in an attempt to change the political landscape, leave France with not a clear path to creating a new administration three weeks before the Paris Olympics.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is set to retire from his position with Macron on Monday, but he has stated that he is willing to serve in a caretaker capacity as weeks of political uncertainty loom.
The left is emerging as the biggest faction in the next parliament, but it has yet to agree on who it wants as prime minister.
The extraordinary situation is unfolding as Macron prepares to leave the country for the most of the week to attend the NATO meeting in Washington.
(Source: AFP)
