PARIS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said that it was not in France's interests that German political parties failed to form a coalition government.
"It's not in our interests that the process freezes up. So, we have to move forward," Macron said while commenting on the collapse of the three-party exploratory talks for the formation of Germany's new government.
The talks failed late Sunday night after the Free Democratic Party (FDP) pulled out due to unbridgeable differences in immigration and energy.
"I spoke with the Chancellor (Angela Merkel) late last night. (FDP leader Christian) Lindner's statements are pretty tough and there is a real risk," Macron said.
A source from the president's office, the Elysee, said that Paris wants its main European ally "to be stable and strong, to move forward together."
"This reinforces the need for France to make proposals, to take the initiative, to work on an ambitious European project that we will implement with our German Partner," it was quoted as saying by local media.
In September, Merkel's conservative won a fourth term after defeating their competitors in a bitter victory tainted by unprecedented surge of a far-right party that made its first entry into the country's parliament in more than five decades.
The election's score forced her political camp to seek for a coalition to avoid a political crisis.
However, talks collapse threw Berlin to its worst crisis in decades and likely to force Merkel to form a minority coalition or hold a new election.
