France's Macron meets political leaders in search for PM

President Macron meets left-wing leaders at the start of crunch talks on who will form a government.

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Snap elections in early July left French politics in deadlock, with no party able to form a clear majority in the National Assembly.

A caretaker government led France during the Paris Olympics, to the anger of a left-wing alliance that topped the poll.

Their four-party New Popular Front wants a little-known senior civil servant called Lucie Castets to be named prime minister. However, the 37-year-old economist is unelected and seen as an unlikely presidential pick for prime minister.

Under France's political system, the president appoints a prime minister who can command a majority in the National Assembly. In recent years, that prime minister has come from the same party as the president, because they are elected within a few weeks of each other.

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