Macron locks down Prime Minister Borne in France. But the Republicans make a wall: “We will not be the crutch of his government”

PARIS – The consultations that Emmanuel Macron launched yesterday with the heads of the parties that will have groups in the new Assemblée Nationale are starting to rise. The head of state finds himself in the unprecedented role of having to find a majority to govern, an anomalous fact for a French semi-presidential regime, especially for a leader who in the last five years has directed the country in an even more vertical way with a majority of 341 deputies.