Good morning. Almost two months after a parliamentary election that left no one bloc with a majority, France is still without a prime minister. Yesterday, Emmanuel Macron, the president, started a new round of consultations on who he will appoint – after rejecting the left’s candidate Lucie Castets, whose politics are significantly out of line with the more centrist-leaning coalition that he would like to see take charge.
But the leftwing parties that form the largest bloc, the New Popular Front (NFP), are refusing to participate. The Greens’ leader, Marine Tondelier, said yesterday that the NFP would reject any government that is not on the left. “How is it possible that we have reached such denial of democracy?” she asked. “We are in the process of having this election stolen from us.”
