Who from the leftist coalition could be France's next prime minister?
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00:00As newly elected or re-elected MPs settle into the National Assembly, behind the scenes
00:06negotiations are intensifying.
00:09The new Popular Front leftist bloc says President Emmanuel Macron should call on it to govern
00:14now.
00:15The Greens, Socialists, Communists and the hard-left France Unbowed together have the
00:19most seats in the National Assembly, 193, but fall far short of the 289 seats needed
00:26for an absolute majority.
00:28In a democracy, tradition dictates that the first parliamentary group should govern the
00:34country.
00:35The question is, how are we going to govern the country?
00:40Can we govern it with the new Popular Front alone?
00:43Or do we need to broaden the coalition to include other progressives so that we can
00:46last?
00:48The leftists also have yet to decide who amongst their ranks they want as prime minister.
00:54And on Tuesday, Socialist leader Olivier Faure publicly threw his name into the hat.
01:00I'm ready to take on this role, but I add a condition, it will be in dialogue with our
01:05partners.
01:06I don't agree with anyone imposing their point of view on anyone else.
01:09The Popular Front will only work on one condition, that it knows how to operate on the basis
01:14of consensus and democracy.
01:17If or when they agree on who they want as premier, the next challenge will be to win
01:22the approval of the president and the hung parliament.
01:26But the horse trading isn't limited to the left.
01:29The second biggest bloc behind the new Popular Front, Macron's camp, is hoping to form a
01:34broad centrist coalition, eyeing both the centre-left and Les Républicains on the right.