Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) NPF left-wing coalition candidate for Prime Minister and economist, Lucie Castets (C), flanked by French Member of Parliament for French leftist La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) LFI party Manuel Bompard (L), France's National Secretary of Les Ecologistes-EELV Marine Tondelier (2ndL) and First Secretary of the French left-wing Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) (PS) MP, French left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) NFP coalition member Olivier Faure (2ndR) and French communist party (PCF) national secretary Fabien Roussel (R), arrives at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on August 23, 2024, to meet France's President who convene party leaders for consultations, in a bid to break political deadlock and form a government following snap elections. Weeks after legislative elections which produced a lower-house National Assembly with no clear majority, France still does not have a new prime minister. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)