French President Emmanuel Macron is holding meetings with leading representatives from across the political spectrum on Friday, as parties seek to form a government to overcome weeks of deadlock following parliamentary elections in early July. Early on Friday, Macron met with the left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) alliance, which has claimed a mandate to govern after topping the second round of voting for France’s lower house, the National Assembly, on July 7. The NPF – consisting of the hard-left France Unbowed, the Socialists, the Communists and the Greens – has proposed civil servant Lucie C…