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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. Instead, he embarked on
another round of talks with party leaders on 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 National Rally - have ruled out forming a coalition,
the president appeared to be back to square one.
"This election is being stolen from us," Green party chief
Marine Tondelier told local radio.
"We're not going to continue these sham consultations with a
president who doesn't listen anyway ... and is obsessed with
keeping control. He's not looking for a solution, he's trying to
obstruct it," Tondelier said.
Socialist Party president Olivier Faure told France 2 television
he would not engage in what he called a "parody of democracy"
now the prospect of a leftist-led government was off the table.
The LFI, a hard-left party within the leftist New Popular Front
(NFP) alliance that won the most seats in a snap parliamentary
election this summer, called for a mass protest against Macron
on Sept. 7.
NFP leaders have repeatedly asserted that France's next prime
minister should come from their ranks, but Macron has ignored
their claims. Macron, a pro-business centrist, thinks the
balance of power lies more with the centre or centre-right.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel and Elizabeth PineauEditing by
Helen Popper and Ros Russell)
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