"I hope that this week, as the mood is good — we have people trying to get a result — so I think we will get to that and I don't have any concerns about that," Olivier Faure told France 2 TV channel.
Le Monde newspaper reported last week that France Unbowed, the largest party in the NFP coalition, proposed four candidates for the prime minister, including its leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, national coordinator Manuel Bompard, Clemence Guette and Mathilde Panot. The list reportedly got a cold reception in the coalition. Faure proposed himself as the next prime minister.
The results of the French polls left the country facing a hung parliament, with no party holding a majority. The NPF, a broad alliance that includes France Unbowed, the Socialists, the Greens and the Communists, came out on top in the runoff, seizing 182 seats in the lower-house National Assembly. PResident Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble came in second with 161 seats, while Marine Le Pen's right-wing National Rally won 142 seats.