France's CGT union federation calls for protests to force Macron to respect election results
THE biggest French union federation has called for mass demonstrations and possible strikes to push President Emmanuel Macron into “respecting the results” of Sunday’s legislative elections by allowing the New Popular Front (NPF) to form a government.
Mr Macron has refused to appoint a prime minister from the left-wing coalition and instead infuriated many across the country by calling on the political parties to construct a “republican” majority in the National Assembly.
Although no party won a majority on Sunday, the NPF alliance, which includes Jean-Luc Melenchon’s France Unbowed, the communists, the Socialist Party, the greens and various other groups, came out on top in the election, with 193 of the National Assembly’s 577 seats.
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