Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrived late Monday morning on the Elysée Palace to current his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron. Inside Minister Gérald Darmanin, Overseas Minister Stéphane Séjourné and Gender Equality Minister Aurore Bergé, additionally political figures within the presidential camp, arrived shortly after. All three have been elected or re-elected as deputies on Sunday.
Emmanuel Macron requested Gabriel Attal to stay Prime Minister “in the intervening time” so as to “guarantee the soundness of the nation”. “He thanked him for the European and legislative election campaigns that he led”, the presidency added.
Yesterday night, the day after the outcomes of the legislative elections, the Prime Minister introduced that he would submit his resignation to the President of the Republic, however that he was able to assume his features “so long as responsibility requires”.
(With AFP)
