French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ruled out a leftwing alliance forming France’s next government, as he doubled down on his efforts to cobble together a coalition involving moderate politicians.
Macron concluded the leftist Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) — which won July’s snap parliamentary election but is far short of a majority — would immediately be opposed by “over 350 deputies” in the 577-seat National Assembly, preventing it from governing, his office said.
After two days of consultations by Macron with political leaders on the appointment of a new prime minister, the Elysée palace said the president had decided “the institutional stability of our country . . . requires us not to choose [the NFP] option”.
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