The Paris Summer Games truce ended the moment the Olympic flag was handed over at the Stade de France on Sunday. Now, Macron and his party are in a rush to establish a majority to nominate the country’s new PM.
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00:00The end of the Paris Olympics also marks the end of the political truce requested by French President Emmanuel Macron.
00:06Five weeks after the second round of the snap parliamentary elections that plunged the country into chaos
00:11with no party obtaining a clear majority, the political chess game is now back in full swing.
00:17This Tuesday afternoon, resigning Prime Minister Gabriel Attal sent out a letter to various party leaders
00:23excluding the far-right National Rally and the hard-left France Unbowed Party.
00:29This letter is a sort of call to finding a legislative compromise and forming a majority coalition.
00:35It's a roadmap of six key points and one of the most important ones is an overhaul of the country's public finances,
00:42a touchy subject considering the EU Commission reprimanded France back in June for not respecting EU budget rules.
00:50And the clock is really ticking as France's national budget plan must be presented to MPs in the National Assembly,
00:56which is where I'm standing, by the beginning of October maximum.
01:01And this is why Macron and the politicians from his party are really rushing to create this ruling coalition
01:09to then nominate a prime minister as fast as possible.
01:13The new popular front, the left-wing coalition that won the most seats in the snap parliamentary elections,
01:18proposed the name of Lucie Castet, a civil servant and economist.
01:22However, the president brushed off her nomination, which caused quite a bit of backlash
01:27because according to institutional logic, the prime minister should come from the party with the most seats in parliament.
01:34And according to some of the MPs from Macron's party that I spoke to,
01:37the president wants to nominate a prime minister by the end of next week maximum.
01:43Sofia Katselkova, reporting from Paris for Euronews.
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