Seven weeks after the snap parliamentary election results, the search for the country's next prime minister is becoming more pressing.
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00:00French President Emmanuel Macron is in the throes of once again trying to form government,
00:06as our correspondent from Paris explains.
00:10France's political headache is far from being resolved.
00:13French President Emmanuel Macron relaunched a series of marathon discussions on Tuesday
00:18with various different parties in the hopes of forming a new government.
00:22On Tuesday, he received the independent and centrist group called Lyot,
00:27and on Wednesday, he will be receiving the conservative right-wing party
00:31that was recently renamed as the Republican Right.
00:34However, the new popular front, the left-wing coalition,
00:37that won the most seats in the snap parliamentary elections
00:40but came short of an absolute majority, has refused to participate in these talks
00:46after Macron rejected the possibility of any left-wing government claiming
00:51that it could endanger institutional stability,
00:55as it would not survive a confidence vote in Parliament.
00:58But with the upcoming Paralympics opening ceremony on Wednesday night
01:02and Macron's visit to Serbia at the end of the week,
01:05well, naming a prime minister is becoming more and more urgent,
01:09and that's because the resigning government under the prime minister, Gabriel Attal,
01:13has now been handling current affairs for more than 40 days,
01:17and it's an unprecedented situation in France since the post-war period.
01:22And the clock is also really ticking,
01:24because the government needs to present the crucial nation's budget plan by October 1st,
01:30and right now, it's looking like France is heading towards a hung parliament
01:34with none of the three main central political blocs
01:38looking like they want to form any sort of coalition.
01:41Sofia Katsenkova, reporting from Paris, for Euronews.