PARIS, July 23 Bloc of left parties » The New Popular Front, which won the French parliamentary elections, has agreed on a single candidate for the post of prime minister, follows from a statement published on Tuesday.
“The New Popular Front has submitted to the President of the Republic a proposal to appoint Lucy as Prime Minister Kastets,” the document says.
This decision followed protracted negotiations, complicated by disagreements between parties. It took more than two weeks to agree on a candidate.
The Left Bloc introduced Kastetz as “a leader in the fight to protect and promote public services, actively involved in the fight against retirement at 64,” and “a public servant who has worked to stop tax fraud and financial crime.”
Kastets is the founder of the collective “Our Public Services”. A graduate of Sciences Po and the London School of Economics, a former student of the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration ENA, she landed her first job at the Treasury General Directorate and then joined the anti-money laundering unit of the French Treasury.
Macron on Monday proposed a “political truce” to the parties during the Olympics, noting that at this time the focus should be on sports, not politics. The media interpreted his call as a reluctance to appoint a new prime minister before the end of the Olympic Games in early September. Macron had previously accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, while declaring that the government would continue to deal with “current affairs”, “perhaps until the end of the Olympics.”
In early elections to the French parliament, the left-wing coalition “New Popular Front” won, receiving 182 seats out of 577 in the country's National Assembly. Second place was taken by the coalition “Together for the Republic” of President Emmanuel Macron, receiving 168 seats in the National Assembly. The right-wing National Rally party, with its Republican allies, won 143 seats. Thus, no political force received a majority to form a new government.