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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the village Bormes-les-Mimosas during World War II, south-eastern France, August 17, 2024
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron held talks today with key political players in a bid to form a new government.
This comes after legislative elections last month resulted in no party winning the majority at the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
Mr Macron refused to appoint a new prime minister until the Paris Olympic Games were over, opting instead to continue with a caretaker administration from his own neoliberal coalition even though they came in second at the polls.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
