The one thing all the other parties agree on is that LFI must not provide the government - nor must RN.
Which doesn’t allow much room for manoeuvre - just as in the Fourth Republic. Only this time there isn’t a De Gaulle haunting the background.
Macron has cleared stated that he would not endorse an NFP (nor LFI, nor PS, nor EELV ans obviously not PC) because their first measure will be to destroy his retirement reform (and the vote will pass as the RN has the same goal)
The second group is RN, that Macron will not endorse, and Bardella is not interested in becoming PM now.
The third group is Renaissance, Macron’s Party, and choosing a PM in his own group after loosing 2 elections will ensure a censorship at the first opportunity.
So he choose a LR, thus having 158 +67 deputies.
That’s not an absolute majority, and since the Left will never support Barnier, he must arrange for the RN to not censor him. That gives the far right the last word in every coming vote, which kind of destroy the whole “republican front anti RN” of Macron.
One wonders how long this government will last.
Worse I would imagine is that Macron is making future general election coordination with those of the Left very unlikely.