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00:00For weeks, this group of right-wing MPs said they will not take part in a coalition government.
00:07They reversed their position when President Emmanuel Macron picked one of their own for prime minister.
00:16Next week, I'm going to form a government with serious ministers
00:19and a government that will be balanced, representative and plural.
00:24But all of France's leftist parties and even centre-left socialist figures
00:28who had criticised their own camp in the past said they will not join the cabinet.
00:34Former socialist president François Hollande has said he will vote to strike down the government once it's formed.
00:42Political analysts say the prime minister could turn to less known, less political figures.
00:49He could find figures from the civil society, whose work could be associated with left-wing positions.
00:55People who may have local mandates and are willing to jump on the bandwagon.
01:00Otherwise, he may get a positive answer from political figures who used to be on the left but shifted away.
01:07Only one major leftist figure said she would consider a position in the new government.
01:14Former minister and former socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal.