Macron to meet political rivals in talks to form a working government
France's President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with his rivals on Tuesday, to try and strike a deal to form a working government.
Macron will likeneed the support of one or more smaller parties to get his key reforms through the National Assembly, after losing his overall majority in Sunday's second round of legislative voting.
Six of Macron's political opponents will be arriving at the Elysée Palace one after the other on Tuesday, including the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
More talks are due to take place on Wednesday but so far Jean-Luc Mélenchon the leader of the next biggest bloc in the National Assembly, of far-left, socialist and green paries, is not yet expected to make an appearance with his deputy not ruling out the idea of meeting with Macron to support his government, but asking "for what purpose?"
A number of political party leaders have already demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
At the end of the second round of elections on Sunday, Macron's candidates won 245 seats, ahead of the left-wing coalition Nouvelle Union Populaire Ecologique et Sociale (NUPES) with 131 and the far-right National Rally which made a historic breakthrough with 89 seats.
Macron’s camp might have to contend with ruling with a minority in parliament or cohabiting with a prime minister and government from a different camp.
They now face the realities of a National Assembly with two hostile opposition groups as he tries to push through important reforms - including on pensions, tax cuts and raising the retirement age - all of which will be nearly impossible to do without a coalition partner.
"We will have to show a lot of imagination" to govern, admitted economy minister Bruno Le Maire.
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