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Macron to convene French party leaders for talks aimed at breaking deadlock

French President Emmanuel Macron said in July he would seek to name a new prime minister after the Paris Olympics, which ended on 11 August. © Aurelien Morissard / via Reuters

AFP (Paris) – French President Emmanuel Macron will next week convene party leaders for a series of consultations, the Elysee said Friday, in a bid to break political deadlock and form a government following snap elections.

Weeks after legislative elections which produced a lower-house National Assembly with no clear majority, France still does not have a new prime minister.

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