Impeaching Macron? France Unbowed's threat nipped in the bud by its coalition partners

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00:00The Olympics' truce in French politics is over.

00:04The business of finding a new prime minister is back on the front burner.

00:08And France's left-wing parties, victors of July's legislative elections, are once again

00:14struggling to find unity.

00:16On Sunday, leaders of France Unbowed, one of the left-most parties of the new Popular

00:21Front, published an op-ed threatening impeachment proceedings against President Emmanuel Macron

00:27if he refuses to name a prime minister from among the winning bloc.

00:31Emmanuel Macron is reportedly about to name a prime minister with no regard for the results

00:37of elections which he lost.

00:39He should know that rather than accept this, we will use all constitutional means to oust

00:44him.

00:45The new Popular Front came in ahead of both Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition, which

00:50lost some 90 seats, and the far-right National Rally.

00:54The left-wing bloc has put forth economist Lucie Castet from the center-left Socialist

00:59Party for prime minister.

01:01She says ousting Macron is not on her agenda.

01:04My plan is not impeachment.

01:07It's power-sharing.

01:08We've known the election results for nearly two months now, and we're still under a caretaker

01:12government.

01:13Macron, meanwhile, is none too keen to have a prime minister from the left in office as

01:19he seeks budget cuts this fall to get France's ballooning deficits under control.

01:25He's trying to cobble together a new minority coalition, in part by breaking more centrist

01:29socialists away from the new Popular Front to team up with center-right parties.

01:34The president has invited leaders of parties and parliamentary groups to the Elysee Palace

01:39this Friday, as the country continues to wait for a new government.

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