French President Emmanuel Macron was holding talks Tuesday with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections.
The meetings at the Elysee presidential palace come after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne formally offered her resignation Tuesday, in line with the tradition after parliamentaryMacron’s Together! alliance won 245 seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections — 44 seats short of a majority in the National Assembly, France’s most powerful house of parliament.
Macron also met with representatives of his own party and allied movements. Other meetings were scheduled Wednesday. Macron was reelected in April on an agenda including measures to boost purchasing power, tax cuts and raising the minimum retirement age from 62 to 65.She said she told him her party’s MPs will be part of the opposition but don’t want to do “systematic obstruction.”
He notably mentioned pension changes, since the conservatives are, like Macron, in favor of raising the retirement age.
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