President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised speech on Wednesday that all party leaders in the French parliament concur on the need to avoid political paralysis and that they must now learn to compromise.
Macron stated that agreements needed to be reached across party lines and that he would endeavor to create a working majority over the coming weeks in his first remarks after his centrist camp lost its absolute majority in an election on Sunday.
During his first term beginning in 2017, Macron had complete control of the legislature. However, outraged by increasing prices and his perceived apathy, voters who re-elected him as president in April gave a hung parliament on Sunday.
The makeup of the new (National) Assembly reflects the fundamental differences and fractures that exist throughout our nation, according to Macron.
How much accountability and cooperation the various National Assembly forms are willing to accept will need to be made clear over the course of the next few days.
While he would spend the following two days at a summit of the European Union, he continued, it was up to the leaders of the various political parties to indicate “how far they are prepared to go.”
