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French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with political opponents on Tuesday after his coalition failed to win a majority in parliamentary elections.
Macron is now under pressure to secure support from rivals in order to advance the reform agenda.
But neither Marine Le Pen, from the far right, nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the alliance of the left and the Greens are very interested in working with him. Minority governments are rare in France, and Macron’s alliance lacks 44 seats to form a majority.
This means he will need support from right-wing and left-wing lawmakers to form a functioning majority.
Party representatives will visit the Elysee Palace separately to hold high-level meetings.
Analysts have said the president could aim to reach an agreement with Republicans, and the party’s leader, Christian Jacob, has confirmed his participation.
According to the AFP news agency, Le Pen will attend the meetings, but not Mélenchon. The center-right government is trying to avoid political paralysis after losing the majority, as rumors have surfaced that France is becoming ungovernable.
Macron will have to replace three ministers who lost their seats in Sunday’s vote, while the future of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne seems to be in jeopardy. More than half of the voters abstained in the elections where 46.23 percent of the population participated.
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