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President Emmanuel Macron kicked off negotiations with party leaders on Friday in a bid to resolve France’s political deadlock, which has persisted for more than six weeks since snap legislative elections left the country with a hung parliament.

President Emmanuel Macron launches negotiations with different party leaders this Friday in a latest effort to bring an end to six weeks of political deadlock following snap legislative elections. Macron seems set on forging a broad coalition that would likely include his own defeated centre-right bloc – though whether he…

France is preparing for another week of political maneuvering as the newly elected National Assembly meets for the first time this Thursday. With the leftist New Popular Front alliance still divided over a candidate for prime minister, the fight for the powerful speaker’s role in parliament seems likely to dominate…

As France's left-wing alliance scrambles to agree on a candidate for prime minister after taking the most parliamentary seats in the July 7 snap election, the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party has proposed veteran politician Huguette Bello as a compromise candidate. The former Communist Party member from the French overseas…

French President Emmanuel Macron lashed out at his allies on Friday in a meeting at the presidential palace, saying that they had made a "disastrous spectacle" of themselves since the snap parliamentary election. Participants at the meeting – attended notably by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and…

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on mainstream parties to join forces to form a solid majority in the National Assembly, in his first public comments since Sunday's snap election delivered a hung parliament. The left-wing NFP alliance, which won the most seats, has called for the will of the…

For many French voters of diverse backgrounds, last Sunday’s parliamentary election results were a relief

A new left-wing alliance won the most seats in France's snap elections, but did not secure an absolute majority. As the National Assembly prepares to convene for the first time on 18 July, what will the lower chamber look like?

France's political landscape is in flux post-election, with coalition-building challenges and a divided parliament. The country faces uncertainty in formin...