As Attal and other ministers eye a future outside government, deep cracks have appeared between the 35-year-old premier and his former mentor Macron. Macron did not get any mention in Attal's message to Renaissance deputies outlining his leadership bid, with observers saying that the prime minister blames the president for calling the vote, which he said took the party to the brink of "extinction". With election runoff leaving the National Assembly without any overall majority, but a broad alliance -- called New Popular Front (NFP), FRANCE 24 is joined by Dr Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at Aston University and LSE Fellow in nationalism where he teaches courses on global security, migration policy, minority rights and qualitative research methods.
