All parties except National Rally and La France Insoumise called on by president to show ‘collective responsibility’
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Emmanuel Macron has summoned the leaders of several political parties to his office to demand they show “collective responsibility” as he attempts to appoint a new prime minister amid a deepening political crisis.
All political parties except Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, which is the biggest single opposition party, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s leftwing La France Insoumise were called to the meeting at the presidential palace before Macron’s self-imposed deadline to name a new prime minister by Friday night.
Parties including the Socialists, Greens and Les Républicains received the invitation at 2am in a sign of the frantic effort to resolve a seemingly intractable political crisis.
