FILE PHOTO: Members of Parliament Mathilde Panot, Louis Boyard, Manuel Bompard and Clemence Guette of the French far-left opposition party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) and the alliance of left-wing parties, called the "Nouveau Front Populaire" (New Popular Front - NFP), arrive with other elected members of parliament at the National Assembly in Paris after the second round of the early French parliamentary elections, France, July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called on mainstream parties to join forces to form a solid majority in the National Assembly, in his first public comments since Sunday's snap election delivered parliamentary gridlock.
The vote, which Macron unexpectedly called after losing to the far-right National Rally (RN) in June's European elections, has plunged France into uncharted waters, with three politically divergent blocs and no obvious path to forming a government.
