France: Macron May Accept Attal’s Resignation

Surprisingly, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s resignation may be accepted on Tuesday, July 16. This is reported by Le Figaro, explaining that during a meeting at the Elysee Palace on July 12 between Gérald Darmanin, Elisabeth Born, and Gabriel Attal, Emmanuel Macron expressed his intention to accept his resignation after the last meeting of the Council of Ministers, scheduled for July 16.

Attal handed his resignation immediately after the second round of legislative elections on July 7, but Macron rejected it, as he himself explained, to “preserve stability in the country.” Finding a government majority after the results of the last election will be extremely difficult: neither party has a majority. And there are important events on the horizon, primarily the Olympic Games in Paris, which will begin on July 26.

Meanwhile, those who left Unconquered France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, which was the surprise of the last election as part of the Popular Front’s winning coalition (but without a majority), have formalized the launch of a new movement called L’Après (After), the Association of Ecological and Social Republic.

Clémentine Autain, Raquel Garrido, Alexis Corbière, Daniel Simonnet, Hendrik Davi and Olivier Malaude will be the leaders of a movement that wants to represent a new radical force of the French left.