French President Emmanuel Macron is refusing to accept Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's resignation following the surprising outcome of the snap parliamentary elections in France, the Élysée Palace annnounced on Monday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday decided to keep his Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in office after parliamentary elections in which the government's political camp lost its role as the strongest party to the left in a hung parliament.

France now looks likely to be stranded in a hung-parliament scenario that divides it between three strongly represented parties that must broker alliances to gain absolute control.