France’s Macron back to square one as left plans protests over political crisis

27/8/2024 19:10

        France's Socialists and Greens will not participate in further talks with President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the country's political deadlock, their leaders said on Tuesday, calling on their supporters to hold peaceful protests instead.
        
        Macron slammed the door on a potential leftist government on Monday, saying it would be immediately removed from power by a majority of lawmakers from other camps, and called another round of marathon talks with party leaders for Tuesday.
        
        But facing a hung parliament in which each of the three almost equal groupings - the left, Macron's centrist bloc and the far right - have ruled out forming a coalition, the president appeared to be back to square one.