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2024.09.11 18:44 GMT+8

France's new PM says to form government 'next week'

Updated 2024.09.11 20:53 GMT+8
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France will have a new government "next week," recently installed conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday.

"We're going to do things methodically and seriously," Barnier told reporters in the eastern city of Reims, adding that he was "listening to everybody" in a political scene split into three broad camps since July's inconclusive snap parliamentary election.

Barnier, who has served as environment, foreign and agriculture minister and was the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, was named last week by President Emmanuel Macron as his compromise pick for head of government.

With no longer even a relative majority in parliament following his decision to dissolve the National Assembly, Macron delayed picking a PM for weeks over the summer as he tried to find someone who would not suffer an immediate no-confidence vote.

Source(s): AFP
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