French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the prime minister’s resignation but kept him on as head of a caretaker government

French President Emmanuel Macron is widely expected to formally accept the prime minister's resignation while keeping him as the head of a caretaker government.

Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of his prime minister and entire government on Tuesday after the snap election he called last month produced political deadlock.

There is no firm timeline for when President Macron must name a new prime minister, following parliamentary elections this month that left the National Assembly with no dominant political bloc in power for the first time in France’s modern republic.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government resigned on Tuesday, but will stay on as caretakers until a new cabinet is appointed following snap legislative elections that delivered no outright winner.

The president's office said in a statement that Macron "accepted" the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and other ministers on Tuesday. Attal and other government members are "to handle current affairs until a new government is being appointed,

Paris: French President Emman Macron has formally accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. According to a press release from the Elysee Palace, the French presidential office, Macron has asked Attal to continue running the caretaker government until the appointment of the next government.