Attal will lead a caretaker administration with restricted powers until a new government is named; the leftwing New Popular Front alliance has still not managed to name a consensus candidate for prime minister.
The hung parliament that has resulted from Emmanuel Macron's decision to call snap parliamentary elections is turning into an even deeper crisis after the broad leftwing alliance, which won most votes, is divided over who to propose as the next prime minister.
To a backdrop of high political tensions following the deadlocked result of France's snap parliamentary elections, the traditional Bastille Day parade in Paris was a re-routed and scaled-down affair because of the preparations for the Olympic Games in the capital.
French national rugby team players Oscar Jegou, 21, and Hugo Auradou, 20, have been charged in Argentina, where they have been playing a tournament, of the aggravated rape of a woman, now hospitalised, who has accused them of violent sexual assault in their hotel accomodation.
At least four people died and nine others are in a serious condition after an inflatable dinghy carrying more than 60 people attempting to cross the Channel from France to Britain capsized off Boulogne-sur-Mer in the early hours of Friday.
More than 60 firefighters were involved in containg a blaze that broke out on Thursday during repair work on the spire of 151-metre tall Gothic 12-century cathedral in Rouen, northern France.
In an open letter published in the French press on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron urged mainstream parties to bridge political divides and propose a coalition government, infuriating the leftwing alliance that garnered most votes in the parliamentary elections and which is demanding that the French president to let it govern.
In an open letter published in the French press on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron urged mainstream parties to bridge political divides and propose a coalition government, infuriating the leftwing alliance that garnered most votes in the parliamentary elections and which is calling on the French president to let it govern.
The 56-year-old wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under investigation on suspicion of having taken part in a plot to convince a key witness in the probe into Libyan funding of her husband's 2007 election campaign to withdraw his account of ferrying cash from the Gaddafi regime to Sarkozy and his chief of staff.
While French President Emmanuel Macron is due to fly to Washington on Wednesday morning for a Nato summit, leaving the political deadlock at home behind, Olivier Faure, the leader of the country's Socialist Party, and which is part of the leftwing alliance that emerged as the largest bloc in parliamentary elections which ended on Sunday, has said he is ready to become prime minister.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 72-year-old leader of the radical-left party La France Insoumise, which took the majority of seats won by the leftwing alliance in parliamentary elections that ended on Sunday, is a divisive figure even among his electoral allies, apparently excluding him from becoming prime minister despite his ambition to do so.
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