PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron invited party leaders to last-minute talks on Friday at the Elysée Palace, according to local media, as the country waits for him to appoint a new prime minister.

All the parties represented in the National Assembly except the far-right National Rally and the far-left France Unbowed received an invitation to attend talks at 2:30 p.m. Friday.

The outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that negotiations with opposition parties were going in the right direction and that Macron would be in a position to appoint a new prime minister by Friday evening.

France was plunged into a crisis on Monday when Lecornu resigned from his post as prime minister, just 14 hours after unveiling his new government. Lecornu, a Macron loyalist, agreed to stay on as PM to try to find a way out of the deadlock.

The next prime minister will be France’s third in less than a year and will face the arduous task of having to negotiate and pass a budget through a deeply fractured and hostile parliament. Speculation was rife on Friday that Macron would name either someone from his camp, possibly even Lecornu again, or pick a technocratic figure.

Lecornu has given no indication as to who the next prime minister could be despite leading talks with opposition parties all week. He has however said a draft budget could be ready in time to be presented to a new government on Monday.

Despite the crisis engulfing France, Macron has yet to address the public.