French President Emmanuel Macron has lashed out at the heads of France’s opposition parties who refused his invitation to participate in a second meeting on Friday aimed at breaking the deadlock in parliament. His opponents say they doubt the sincerity or effectiveness of the effort.
Macron invited the heads of the National Assembly’s 11 political parties for a closed-door meeting in the suburb of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, as the follow-up to a first round of talks in August.
