Paris - (AFP) - Opposition parties in France coldly received President Emmanuel Macron's speech, which called on them to submit within 48 hours proposals for ways to reach "compromise solutions" to resolve the political crisis that resulted in the legislative elections in the country.

Macron's speech came before he participated in a series of international meetings, from the European summit that will be held Thursday and Friday in Brussels to a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and another of the Group of Seven.

Macron, who lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly after the recent legislative elections, called in a speech on Wednesday evening for the country's political forces to "compromise", but he rejected the idea of a national unity government that he considered "unjustified at present".

Three days after the second round of elections that took place on Sunday, France is witnessing a state of political uncertainty, which forces Macron, who was re-elected in April for a second presidential term, to search for alliances to get out of the crisis resulting from his loss of the absolute majority.

However, Macron did not announce any major step on Wednesday evening, and instead called on the political forces to assume their responsibilities.

The leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Melenchon, immediately responded to Macron's calls, deeming them "useless", and demanded a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne in the National Assembly, which has greater "legitimacy" than the legitimacy of the president.

He added, "There is no point in dissipating the reality of voting by covering it with considerations and appeals of all kinds," stressing that "the executive authority is now weak, but the National Assembly is strong with all the legitimacy of its recent elections."

Marine Le Pen, who is preparing to take over the leadership of the powerful National Assembly bloc in the National Assembly (89 deputies), said, "By choosing to either conclude an alliance or to search for a majority for each project separately (to be put to a vote in parliament), the president is trying to save what remains of the presidential job."

However, she promised that the deputies of her bloc would study "the texts in the light of the interests of the French and France."

The new leader of the right-wing "Republicans" party, Olivier Marle, refused to grant "a blank check (...) to an unclear project." He also promised that his group would present proposals on purchasing power next week.

Analyzes talked about the possibility of an alliance between Macron, his party "Together" and the Republicans in order to form a majority in Parliament, but this did not crystallize.

Communist Fabien Roussel also rejected Macron's statements, saying that "his talk about the method aims to evade his responsibility and not change anything from his project."

"No, the political formations do not have to answer him how far they are willing to go in giving him a blank check," said the socialist Olivier Four.

In a brief speech addressed to the French on Sunday, the head of state acknowledged the existence of "cracks" revealed by the legislative elections, and called on the political class to "learn to rule and legislate differently."

"We will have to reach compromises," Macron said in his speech, but "we must do it with complete transparency and openly, if I may say so, a desire for unity and work for the nation."

He added, "In order to achieve useful progress, it is now up to the political groups to say with complete transparency how far they are willing to go," noting that "it will be necessary in the coming days for the many formations in the National Assembly to clarify the extent of responsibility and possible cooperation: Do you want to enter into a government coalition?" And work (or) simply oblige to vote on certain texts? Our budget.

He gave these parties 48 hours, indicating that he wants to "start building this method and this new formation" upon his return from the European summit that will be held Thursday and Friday in Brussels.

Macron recalled that the legislative elections "made the presidential majority the first force," stressing that he was determined not to "lose the cohesion of the project that you (the voters) chose last April," referring to his re-election.

"There is no political force today that can make laws on its own," he said, noting that this is "a new reality."

On Wednesday, Macron concluded a broad round table with the opposition forces and his allies, in search of a difficult consensus to end the crisis.

"I hear and I am determined to support the desire for change that the country has clearly expressed," he said in the speech, noting that he "exchanged views with the leaders of all political parties" and "all of them expressed their respect for our institutions and their desire to spare our country any disruption."

His ally and former Prime Minister Edward Philippe, head of the "Orizon" party, called again on Wednesday for the formation of a "big coalition" to give the country a "stable direction".

The liberal centrist coalition, which had the absolute majority in the previous National Assembly and on which President Macron relied throughout his first term of five years, won 245 seats out of 577, knowing that the absolute majority is limited to 289 deputies.

The other seats in the National Assembly were distributed mainly between the coalition of the left (150 seats), the extreme right (89) and the right (61).