The New Popular Front (NPF) in France, which unites left-wing parties, is gathering We will appoint a candidate for the post of prime minister this week that he be appointed and govern on his own agenda, rather than in coalition with President Emmanuel Macron’s outgoing majority.

“We have to prepare a candidate this week,” stressed this Monday the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, who insisted that Macron must admit that “he was defeated” in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7.

In an interview with the radio station Information about France, Faure declined to comment on who might become prime minister, other than the leader of La Francia Insumisa (LFI). Jean-Luc Melenchon, and point out that he will have to “be able to engage in dialogue with the outside world” because the relative majority of NLP will have to be “expanded.”

The left-wing coalition, which unites the LFI, the PS, the ecologists and the French Communist Party (PCF), has won elections to the legislative bodies in the first political bloc, which received about 182 seats out of 577that is, very far from the 289 needed for an absolute majority.

The bloc of parties that supported the outgoing Macron government remained in force. second position with about 168 deputies (in the last National Assembly they had 250 seats), while Marine Le Pen’s far right, despite making the most progress of all groups, has to settle for 143 seats (they had 89).

LFI MP Manuel Bompard, who is one of Mélenchon’s aides, insisted that there is a “losers” who are “Macronism and the National Rally” (RN) of Marine Le Pen, while the NFP “is the first political entity of the National Assembly that must govern.”

In another interview with the channel France 2Bombard confirmed that discussions between the left coalition formations will continue today They will propose a “method and a name” to the Prime Minister to ensure that their program is implemented because “we must respect the word we gave to the voters.”

When asked how they would implement this program without a majority in parliament to approve it, the LFI deputy recalled that The outgoing Macron government also did not have an absolute majority.

In this regard, Fore noted that “The reality of power will be in parliament” and that most will probably have to search text by text.

For the socialist leader “The Macron camp must show responsibility” and say whether they are ready in the future to join their votes with the RN to overthrow the PNF government by a vote of no confidence. And in this regard, he recalled that the left did not do this in the previous legislature, although it was technically possible.

Environmental leader Marine Tondelier insisted that Macron “must officially call the NFP today.” “convey to him the name of the Prime Minister.”