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French President Emmanuel Macron has said he won’t name a new government until after the end of the Paris Olympics.
It comes after the New Popular Front (NFP), a left-wing coalition that makes up the largest group in France’s parliament after recent elections, put forward a little-known civil servant, Lucie Castets, as a candidate for prime minister.
Responding to the proposal, Mr Macron said that to make a new appointment before mid-August would “create disorder”.
Left-wing politicians have accused him of trying to “cancel the result of the legislative elections”.
The Olympics get under way with an opening ceremony in central Paris on Friday and will conclude on 11 August.
Mr Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal following heavy losses for their centrist party in parliamentary elections that concluded at the start of this month.
However, Mr Attal and his ministers agreed to stay on in the form of a caretaker government until replacements could be appointed.
