Hello, and welcome to Newshour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Samy.
They think they should be in government.
Instead, they have been on the streets.
Tens of thousands of supporters of left wing parties in France have been protesting today about President Macron's appointment of the veteran right wing politician Michel Barnier as prime minister.
Everyone hates Michel Barnier.
That was the chant in Marseille, the location of one of more than 100 marches across the country.
Well, it's more than two months since I was in Paris for NewsHour, reporting on the inconclusive result of a snap parliamentary election which saw a left wing alliance, a new popular front, win the most seats but fall well short of a majority.
It's taken that long an age in french political terms for President Macron to name a prime minister after he rejected the new popular fronts choice of the little known economist Lucy Castet.
The new Popular Front insisted their program should be adopted in full, even though they won barely more seats in the election than a centrist bloc loyal to President Macron and a populist right bloc led by Marine Le Pens.
National rally the three time presidential candidate has agreed to support Michel Barnier, provided she says he pursues tough security and immigration policies and respects her party mp's.
Among those attending the rallies today was Nathalie Oziol, an mp with the left wing La France insommise or France unbowed party.
Before going to a march in the southern city of Montpellier, she gave me her reaction to the nomination of Michel Barnier as prime minister.
This is a democratic scandal.
This is outrageous.
And you may well, you understand that french people are really angry and outraged because the impression is that their voice hasn't been heard.
That message hasn't been understood.
Of course, you won the largest number of seats in the new popular front, but you were far short of an overall majority in the assembly.
So there had to be some kind of compromise, didn't there?
That was the only way that some kind of workable government that wouldn't fall at the first hurdle could be found.