PM Attal Supports New Leaders In France, Doesn't Have To Be From Macron's Sentris Block

JAKARTA - France does not yet have a replacement for Prime Minister Gabriel Attal because groups in parliament are divided as a result of a dispute complicated by the July election where no party has succeeded in achieving an absolute majority.

Launching ANTARA, Saturday, August 24, Gabriel Attal, who is also chairman of the Republican party faction led by President Emmanuel Macron, said he supports the appointment of the country's new prime minister who does not come from the party blocks supporting the president.

"I support the appointment of a new prime minister who does not come from the centrist bloc party and for a government that represents a broad spectrum of views from the left wing to the right wing of the republic, which seems to be making progress in the interests of the French people," Attal's letter reads to his colleagues, quoted by French broadcaster BFMTV, Friday 23 August.

Meanwhile, the Attal faction will reportedly soon file a motion of distrust if any of the ministers from France Unbowed's left-wing party are appointed to a new government.

On Friday, Macron held talks with parliamentary factions and party leaders to discuss issues of forming a new government.

Previously, the New Popular Front left Block, which earned the most seats, nominatedular Castets, a leading financial official at the Paris mayor's office, as their prime ministerial candidate.