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Showdown as Popular Front demands right to form a government - but Macron declines

FRANCE’S New Popular Front (NPF), which won the most seats in Sunday’s parliamentary election, has called on President Emmanuel Macron to ask it to form a government.
But the president yesterday addressed the nation saying as no bloc had a majority, he intended to keep current Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in place until a compromise coalition had been built up – and even hinting it should not include representatives of the biggest part of the NPF, the left-wing France Unbowed.
The NPF won 180 seats to 159 for Ensemble (“Together”), Mr Macron’s bloc, and outpolled it by over two million votes. The two must co-operate to form a governing majority.
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