France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government on Tuesday, which will now serve only in a caretaker capacity, the presidency said.
French politics have been in gridlock since an inconclusive snap election earlier this month, with parties in the National Assembly scrambling to put together a governing coalition and no successor to Attal in sight.
The outgoing premier and his team would “handle day-to-day business until a new government is named”, the Elysee Palace said.
There is no firm timeline for when Macron must name a new prime minister, following parliamentary elections this month that left the National Assembly with no dominant political bloc in power for the first time in France’s modern Republic.
The caretaker government led by Attal will focus only on handling day-to-day affairs.