France in limbo after Macron gamble deepens political deadlock
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00:00The election is over, but the fight to form a French government has just begun.
00:05With no clear path toward a majority,
00:07Prime Minister Gabriel Attal submitted his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron Monday morning.
00:13Macron asked Attal to stay on in a caretaker capacity
00:17since it's unknown how long it will take for his successor to be decided.
00:22Left-wing Green Party leader Marine Tendelier says
00:26Macron should choose a prime minister from the leftist bloc,
00:29which won the most seats.
00:31According to institutional logic, Emmanuel Macron should today officially call on the New Popular Front
00:36to give him the name of a prime minister.
00:38Will he do so or will he not?
00:40Macron is always full of surprises.
00:42We'll see, but that's the institutional logic.
00:45Meanwhile, the far-right National Rally, after underperforming expectations,
00:49claims the results are a win for the party nonetheless.
00:53This morning, when we look at the numbers of votes that we have received,
00:57more and more votes, for example, than the Popular Front,
01:00that is something to celebrate.
01:02It is not a defeat because we didn't get a relative or absolute majority.
01:06I believe it's a victory postponed.
01:10France is now facing weeks of political uncertainty
01:14and, depending on how a coalition pans out,
01:16a state of permanent disagreement in Parliament.