MOSCOW, July 9 (Bernama-Sputnik) -- French President Emmanuel Macron will likely resign if he hand-picks a left-wing prime minister to lead a new coalition government and then it ends up failing, Gilles Lebreton, a member of the European Parliament from the right-wing National Rally party, told Sputnik.
"President Macron is likely to appoint a left-wing Prime Minister, who will head a coalition government made up of the NFP (excluding the far-left La France Insoumise party), the center parties, and the right-wing LR (The Republicans) party. If he does not succeed, or if this coalition fails to work properly, he will have no option but to resign," Lebreton said.
Another option could be dissolving the National Assembly again, but the French constitution forbids Macron to do so less than a year after the previous dissolution, Lebreton said.
In June, Macron announced the dissolution of the French parliament's lower house and the holding of two-round snap parliamentary elections. The New Popular Front coalition won the parliamentary elections, receiving 182 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, followed by Macron's centrist coalition with 168 seats and the National Rally with 143 seats.
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