After the legislative elections, the left demands Matignon, but Macron maintains Attal

Arriving at the head of the legislative elections, but far from the absolute majority, the left assures Monday July 8 that it will propose "during the week" a name for Matignon, where Gabriel Attal, who presented his resignation, was maintained to "ensure the stability of the country.

No camp seems able to govern alone: neither the New Popular Front (around 190 seats), nor the presidential camp (around 160 seats), nor the RN and its allies (more than 140 seats) obtained the absolute majority in the National Assembly (289 deputies).

Taking note of this result, outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal presented his resignation to Emmanuel Macron, who asked him to remain in office "for the moment" in order to "ensure the stability of the country" while France must welcome the Olympic Games from July 26.

The two heads of the executive were joined at the Elysée by several ministers including Gérald Darmanin (Interior) and Stéphane Séjourné (Foreign Affairs).

The left is already putting pressure on Matignon. The head of environmentalists Marine Tondelier estimated that Emmanuel Macron “should call today” the left “to give him the name of Prime Minister”.

The socialist Olivier Faure, for his part, hoped that the NFP “would be able to present a candidacy” for Matignon “within the week”.

The latest declarations of the rebellious Mathilde Panot risk in any case crystallizing tensions within the fragile union: the insoumise has judged that the controversial leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon "is absolutely not disqualified" for this position .

A point of view that its allies do not share, while the balance of power has evolved within the left alliance where La France insoumise is less hegemonic, especially since its "rebels" like Clémentine Autain and François Ruffin will not sit no longer in the same group.

“Reasonable people”

Meanwhile, the Macronist camp continues to plead for a coalition. “I believe in it more than ever,” said Yaël-Braun Pivet. The former president of the National Assembly, however, only plans to govern with "people who share (her) values and (her) objectives, this is neither the case of LFI nor the case of the RN" .

More restrictive, his colleague Aurore Bergé directly held out a pole to the sixty Republican deputies: “Do they want to remain a systematic opposition force?”

An expansion to the right is off to a bad start since Laurent Wauquiez, back on the national scene with his election in Haute-Loire, warned on Sunday evening that there "will be neither coalition nor compromise" on the part of LR.

The boss of MoDem François Bayrou, for his part, considered it "possible" to constitute a majority without RN or LFI, and seemed to be banking on a division of the left, pointing to "incompatible attitudes and political choices" within the New Popular Front.

Calculations contested by Marine Tondelier: "Those who explain to us that they are going to make a majority without LFI have not had the same maths teachers as me (...) I don't see how that's possible".

“We’re going to have to talk.”

Even if it means bringing grist to the mill of the National Rally.

Emmanuel Macron must "decide whether he should appoint a far-left Prime Minister, and then good luck with the vote of confidence, good luck with building a budget", noted the vice-president of the far-right party, Sébastien Chenu, on France Inter.

The NFP program, the repeal of the pension reform to the minimum wage of 1.600 euros net, appears in fact hardly compatible with the ambitions of the presidential camp.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, however, was inflexible on Sunday evening, affirming that Emmanuel Macron must "leave or appoint a Prime Minister" from the New Popular Front.

Unlike the social democrat Raphaël Glucksmann who admitted that "we will have to discuss, we will have to dialogue" in the face of this "divided" Assembly.

Despite the uncertainty of the situation, the financial markets remained neutral on Monday morning, with the Paris Stock Exchange opening slightly lower before returning to the green at midday.

Abroad, the vote was particularly scrutinized.

The German government expressed "some relief" after the poor performance of the RN, which the Spanish and Polish Prime Ministers also welcomed.

In Russia, on the other hand, the Kremlin "does not harbor any particular hope or illusion" after the results fell far short of the expectations of the French far right, often accused of collusion with Moscow.

Meanwhile in Paris, discussions will quickly begin in the National Assembly for the distribution of political groups and the allocation of key positions, with the election of its future president on July 18. The outgoing Yaël Braun-Pivet, re-elected in Yvelines, continues to believe in the perch.

The doors of the Palais Bourbon officially open at 14:00 p.m. Monday to welcome some of the 577 deputies of the new legislature... Not everyone will be there: the Insoumis, for example, have planned to come together on Tuesday morning.