 There was a tactical pact between the left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front, which won the most seats, and President Macron's Centrist Alliance, which managed to thwart the far-right national rally. It had been hoping to pick up the most seats in that parliament. It came third in the end. Those two blocks, though, on the left and the centre, have very different policies. That leaves no easy path towards forming a government. So, for the time being, President Macron has asked Gabriel Attal, the current prime minister, to stay on in a...