French President Emmanuel Macron will focus his attention entirely on the Olympic Games in Paris will not appoint a new prime minister and government until the Olympics are over, the agencies reported.
France's left-wing New Popular Front coalition, which won the most seats in parliament in this month's election, said it had agreed to put forward economist Lucie Caste as its prime ministerial candidate to President Emmanuel Macron, reports Reuters.
In a joint statement, the four parties of the "New People's Front" stated that Caste was a public servant who had worked against tax and financial fraud.
In his first interview since the election in early June, Macron conceded his centrist party's defeat at the polls but declined to comment on the left's bid for a new prime minister. He also rejected the possibility of resigning before the end of his term.
In his words, he will leave the current centrist caretaker government in power until the end of the Olympic Games, in order to prevent destabilization of the state.
"It is perfectly clear that by mid-August we must focus our attention entirely on organizing the Olympic Games," Macron said on the air of the "France 2" channel.
"After that, depending on the progress of the negotiations between the parties, I will have to appoint a prime minister charged with the task of forming a government on the broadest possible basis."
The Olympics in Paris begin on Friday and will continue until August 11.