French parliament left scrambling after surprise hung parliament result

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The President, Emmanuel Macron, has refused the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, opting to keep the PM in place while political parties scramble to form a majority government.

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00:00The question now is that of modalities, but the French have not chosen.

00:04Who are they to explain what the constitution should be?

00:07Who are they?

00:26Well, these are very surprising results.

00:28A week ago, all the polls were indicating that the national rally would come first quite significantly.

00:35And the national rally came third. In other words, they just lost these elections.

00:41Not only they came third, but the left came first, which is also unexpected.

00:47How do you make a coalition government with people who traditionally don't really work together?

00:55So it's a bit of a rollercoaster at the moment, and it isn't clear what the next French government will be.

01:01It will be left-leaning, but whether it will be a hard left or a soft Labor left ruling with Macron's coalition,

01:10that's going to be known within the next few days, possibly a few weeks actually.

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