President seeks to ensure stability during transition after green-left alliance’s surprise electoral win
Emmanuel Macron has asked Gabriel Attal to stay on temporarily as French prime minister to maintain stability after a snap general election left France facing a hung parliament and fraught negotiations to form a new government.
The president called the ballot last month after a humiliating defeat to the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen in European parliamentary elections, but on Sunday it was a green-left alliance that emerged as the surprise winner.