French President accepts Prime Minister’s departure, but helps retain him as acting executive head

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday approved the resignation of the prime minister but retained him as head of the acting executive, as France prepares to host the Paris Olympics at the end of the momentum.

The president’s workplace said in a comment that Macron had “accepted” the departure of Prime Minister Gabriel Atal and other ministers on Tuesday. The note said that the permanent and alternative executive participants “will have to handle contemporary affairs until a new government is appointed.”

There is currently no timeline for when Macron will be handed the vacant prime ministerial post, leaving the National Assembly without a major political faction in power for the first time in the Popular Republic of France following parliamentary elections.

The acting executive under Atal will focus on handling day-to-day matters.

“To end this period as quickly as possible, it is up to all Republican forces to work together around projects and actions that serve the French people,” the president’s remarks said. A brief session of the nationwide meeting, France’s region of the strongly declining parliament, is scheduled for Thursday.

Normally, members of the presidency are barred from becoming lawmakers, but Tuesday’s action allows Atal to take his seat as a lawmaker and rule over Macron’s throng of centrist allies in the National Assembly. It also protects him from a no-confidence vote, as he has already resigned and a serving executive cannot be the subject of one of these votes.

The momentum has left France on the brink of administrative paralysis following the first National Assembly elections, with a rift between three major political groups: the leftist General Front coalition, Macron’s centrist allies, and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front. Rally.

The unutilized Normal Front probably got the most seats, but fell well short of the absolute majority needed to lead on its own.

The three primary parties of the leftist coalition, the hard-left France Unbowed, the Socialists and the Vegetables, have advised the president to give him the reins of the unused executive, but their internal talks have turned into a bitter dispute over who should get the top job. But be selected. Minister.

France Unbowed on Monday suspended talks, accusing the Socialists of trying to sabotage Atal’s replacement candidature.

Socialist Birthday Party leader Oliver Faure said on Tuesday that if the leftist coalition is to meet “the expectations of the public” and fulfill its commitment that it is “ready to govern” it will have to “think, talk and Wishes to “reopen the discussion”.

Faure said some of the coalition’s birthday party leaders’ lengthy discussions, social discord and angry verbal exchanges over coffee “do not look good.” However, “the stakes are so high that it is not unusual for us to talk for a long time and, sometimes, we shout,” Faure said on France Inter radio.

Sébastien Chenu, vice president of the nationwide rally, said the rift on the left is a sign that the unused common front is “not ready to govern.” Elections for the European Parliament and the National Assembly – used to be a “refutation of democracy”.

Chenu said in an interview with Europe 1 and CNews broadcasters that holding him directly to lead “current affairs” is tantamount to “failing” French society.

“We can’t make something new out of an old thing,” Chenu said. “Atal will have to pack his bags, him and all his ministers.”

Politicians from the three main groups in the National Assembly, the influential lower chamber of France’s parliament, are also fighting for the presidency and key committees.

Manuel Bompard, an MP from France Unbiased, said he supported Marine Le Pen’s far-right nationwide rally’s vision to prevent lawmakers from holding key positions on parliament’s committees, such as finance, defense and others.

Despite Le Pen’s party finishing third in the polls, behind Macron’s centrist team and the leftist coalition, Bompard said in an interview with France 2 TV that “we have no reason to help them reach positions of responsibility”. Not there.” ,

Le Pen, a leading figure of French ideology and a National Rally lawmaker, stressed that “all political forces must participate in the functioning of parliament”.

“People have spoken. There are 577 legislators who represent them,” Le Pen said in a post on X. “Even though I am the last one to defend democracy, I insist that the Macronists, the New Popular Front, National Raleigh and Eric Ciotti (a national Raleigh affiliate) should be represented in the legislative body,” she said.