French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Sunday (July 7) he will hand his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (July 8) morning, adding he will carry out his duties as long as required, Reuters reports.
Attal made the comments after France's left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of parliamentary elections, leading pollsters said on Sunday, putting them on track for an unexpected win over the far right National Rally (RN) party but short of an absolute majority in parliament.
The result would mark a huge setback for the far right, which opinion surveys ahead of the vote had projected would win comfortably, before the left and centrist alliances cooperated by pulling scores of candidates from three-way races to build a unified anti-RN vote.
The RN was set to come third, according to pollsters' projections based on early results, trailing Macron's centrists.
The election will leave parliament divided in three big groups with hugely different platforms and no tradition at all of working together.
The vote was also a humiliation for President Emmanuel Macron, who called the snap election after his ticket was trounced in European Parliament elections last month.
