Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped to appoint a new prime minister in the coming days, in a combative televised address that will do little to ease a deepening political crisis.
Macron was speaking one day after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted by lawmakers in a no-confidence vote. The president resisted calls for him to stand down, seeking instead to shift blame onto the left-wing and far-right factions that united to bring down Barnier’s government. He had harsh words for the far-right National Rally, whose leader, Marine Le Pen, has orchestrated opposition against Macron and has vowed to frustrate his agenda.
Whoever he picks as prime minister must be approved by a sharply divided parliament, where he faces an avowed opposition from both wings. Macron is halfway through his second and final term as president, but the results of the snap election he called in June have severely complicated the final stages of his time in power and diminished his authority at home and abroad.
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