On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government, which will now serve in a caretaker capacity, according to the presidency.
French politics have been in gridlock since an inconclusive snap election earlier this month, with parties in the National Assembly struggling to form a governing coalition and no clear successor to Attal.
The Elysee Palace stated that the outgoing premier and his team would “handle day-to-day business until a new government is named.”
Macron urged mainstream political parties, excluding the far right and hard left, to work together to build unity and end this period as quickly as possible.
Macron had announced the plan earlier in the day at the first cabinet meeting since his allies were defeated in the snap parliamentary election, which he called to “clarify” the political landscape.
Macron informed the ministers that he would ask Attal to stay on “for some weeks,” probably until after the Paris Olympics, which start on July 26. This gives political parties more time to form a governing coalition after the July 7 election runoff left the lower house without an overall majority.
