President Macron’s office urged Marine Le Pen to “keep her cool” after she accused him of mounting an “administrative coup d’état” by appointing state officials who she claimed would obstruct any government led by her party.
She said the president was rumoured to be about to name officials “with the aim of preventing Jordan Bardella [the National Rally’s candidate for prime minister] from governing the country as he wishes”.
The hard-right Rally won an unprecedented victory in the first round of snap parliamentary elections and is now on course to form France’s next government.
A statement from the office of Emmanuel Macron says it is the prerogative of the president to appoint officials independent of political events
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She alleged that the president was trying “to go against the choice of voters, the result of the elections, by appointing people to prevent the implementation of the policy that the