{"id":82573,"date":"2024-07-16T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/french-prime-minister-gabriel-attals-govt-resigns-stays-on-as-caretakers-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:20:39","slug":"french-prime-minister-gabriel-attals-govt-resigns-stays-on-as-caretakers-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/french-prime-minister-gabriel-attals-govt-resigns-stays-on-as-caretakers-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s govt resigns, stays on as caretakers | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nPARIS:
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French centrist Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government resigned on Tuesday, but will stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is appointed following an inconclusive\u00a0snap election.<\/p>\n

The caretaker government will run\u00a0current affairs\u00a0in the euro zone’s second-largest economy, but cannot submit new laws to parliament or make any major changes, experts say.<\/p>\n

Its role will include making sure that the Olympics, that start on July 26, run smoothly.<\/p>\n

“Handling current affairs means implementing measures already decided and managing emergencies that arise. No more no less,” said Mathieu Disant, a law professor at Paris’ Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne university.<\/p>\n

“An outgoing government is deprived of its full powers. This completely – and quite logically – deprives it of any margin for political action.”<\/p>\n

There have been caretaker governments before in France, but none has ever stayed on for more than a few days. There is no set limit to how long an acting government can stay on. Parliament cannot force it to quit.<\/p>\n

Strict rules on the separation of powers do not usually allow ministers in France to be lawmakers simultaneously.<\/p>\n

But their resignations, even if they stay on in a caretaker capacity, will allow Attal and other members of the government to sit in parliament and take part in the\u00a0election\u00a0of the assembly’s president when it convenes on Thursday, experts say.<\/p>\n

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“SHIPWRECK?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who becomes president of the assembly, equivalent to a speaker who organises the chamber’s agenda and runs debates, is crucial at a time when it is still unclear who will run the government as no party or group has an absolute majority.<\/p>\n

A left-wing alliance that unexpectedly topped the June 30 and July 7 election, and which has since been fighting bitterly over who to put forward as\u00a0prime minister, hopes to agree on a name for parliament chief.<\/p>\n

“Never before has the election of the president of the assembly held such a political significance,” Eurointelligence analysts said.<\/p>\n

For the left, they said, the aim was to show it “has what it takes to command a majority in the assembly. For the centrists, it is to demonstrate the opposite.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New Popular Front\u00a0(NFP), an alliance ranging from socialists and Greens to the communist party and the hard-left France Unbowed, was hastily assembled before the election.<\/p>\n

After it failed to win an absolute majority, years of tensions between the parties have resurfaced over who could run a possible left-wing government.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters, Macron has called on mainstream parties to forge an alliance to form a government, an option that would include some of the NFP but exclude France Unbowed.<\/p>\n

“If we don’t manage to find a solution in the hours, the days, to come, it would be a shipwreck,” Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel told BFM TV, describing the state of talks among left-wing parties as “deplorable.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PARIS: French centrist Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government resigned on Tuesday, but will stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is appointed following an inconclusive\u00a0snap election. The caretaker government will run\u00a0current affairs\u00a0in the euro zone’s second-largest economy, but cannot submit new laws to parliament or make any major changes, experts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-17-at-1-27-25-AM1721161707-0\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-17-at-1-27-25-AM1721161707-0.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t