The snap legislative elections called by French President Emmanuel Macron left the country with a hung parliament and no dominant political bloc in power in the lower-house National Assembly for the first time in France's modern history. One solution proposed to end the deadlock is for a government of experts, or “technocrats”, to take care of the business of government until a coalition can be forged.
Faced with the lack of a governing majority in parliament, President Macron on Tuesday asked outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to head a caretaker government to handle day-to-day affairs, an interim administration likely to continue at least until after the Paris Olympics running from July 26 to August 11.
