"I hope that there can be an agreement to at least avoid bringing down a government, but we don't believe in the possibility of discussing a deal to form a government with people who don't share the same vision of what needs to be done for France," says Laurent Wauquiez, the head of France's right-wing LR MPs in parliament, at the end of a meeting between President Emmanuel Macron and the leaders of France's parties -- excluding the far-right National Rally (RN) and hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) -- in a bid to end political deadlock. SOUNDBITE