President seeking consensus with groups including far right after failing to control Assemblée Nationale
Emmanuel Macron has met leaders of opposition groups including the far right’s Marine Le Pen to sound out his chances of negotiating a parliamentary majority.
Gabriel Attal, former government spokesperson now minister for public accounts, said: “I find it quite curious to hear a man who hasn’t been elected by the French, who wanted to be prime minister but who couldn’t be giving lessons about legitimacy to a woman prime minister elected by the French.” The first to arrive on Tuesday morning was Christian Jacob, president of the mainstream right Les Républicains party, which came fourth in the general election in terms of the number of seats won, behind Mélenchon’s left-wing alliance Nupes and the far-right Rassemblement Nationale .“We have never been in such a situation. The responsibility for it lies with the president of the republique. He has had a five-year term for nothing.
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