Macron accepts PM Gabriel Attal’s resignation, asks him to stay on
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President Emmanuel Macron accepts Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s resignation but asks him to remain in a caretaker role.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government, which will now serve in a caretaker capacity, the Elysee Palace said.
It will “handle day-to-day business until a new government is named”, the palace said in a statement on Tuesday.
Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance was beaten by the New Popular Front (NFP), a broad alliance of leftist and environmental parties, in snap parliamentary elections earlier this month.
The vote left the National Assembly with no dominant political bloc in power for the first time in the history of France’s modern republic, and a coalition government has yet to be formed between alliances or political parties.
Until a government is formed, Attal’s caretaker government will run current affairs in the eurozone’s second-largest economy. Its role will also include making sure that the Olympic Games, which start on July 26, run smoothly.
