The president of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party said that he would refuse to be prime minister if his party failed to win an absolute majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections of June 30 and July 7. Speaking to French media Europe 1 and CNews, RN leader Jordan Bardella said: "If tomorrow, the French put the country in a situation of relative majority (...), then we wouldn't be able to change things."

In an interview with French daily Le Parisien, he also postponed the abolition of VAT on basic necessities to "another time." This comes after he had already backtracked on the repeal of the highly-contested pension reform, citing economic reasons.