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Uncharted territory: Despite Macron’s initial resistance to work with NFP ‘Castets could be next PM’

After the excitement of the Paris Olympics and a Mediterranean vacation, now French President Emmanuel Macron has to figure out how to make his country governable again. Faced with a hung parliament, social tensions and ballooning debt, Macron kicked off talks Friday with key political players in a bid to choose a new prime minister who would form a government and end the deadlock created by snap legislative elections last month. Members of the left-wing New Popular Front coalition that won the most seats pressured Macron for a quick decision. Their nominee for prime minister, little-known civil servant Lucie Castets, said after Friday’s meetings in the Elysee Palace that she was ready to govern, and ready for compromise to get things done. But the party only has about a third of the seats in the National Assembly, France’s powerful lower house of parliament, and no party has a majority. Macron’s centrist alliance came in second and the far-right National Rally came in third. As Macron holds talks with key political players in a bid to form a new government, FRANCE 24’s Alison Sargent is joined by Dr Nicholas Startin, Political Scientist, Associate Professor of International Relations at John Cabot University, and non-resident Senior Fellow in the Global Education and Innovation section of the Global Governance Institute,

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