France's left-wing parties told Emmanuel Macron on Friday that they want to form the next government, as the French President kicked off consultations on who could be prime minister nearly seven weeks after inconclusive parliamentary elections. Macron, who did not speak publicly after his meeting with the left, has so far ignored their demands, pointing out that despite coming first in the early July ballot, the left's New Popular Front alliance was far from an absolute majority. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali reports from the Elysée Palace in Paris.
