With just 15 days remaining until the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, a leader of a major French union has urged for mass strikes to pressure President Emmanuel Macron into acknowledging the results of recent legislative elections and allowing a leftist coalition to form a new government.
Following Sunday's vote for the National Assembly, France finds itself on the verge of a governing standstill as the legislature is now divided among three main political groupings: the New Popular Front leftist coalition, Macron’s centrist allies, and the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen.
