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Francois Bayrou named new French prime minister: Elysee

CGTN

 , Updated 20:02, 13-Dec-2024
France's centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem) party leader Francois Bayrou arrives to attend a meeting with the-then French prime minister at the Matignon Hotel in Paris, September 18, 2023. /CFP
France's centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem) party leader Francois Bayrou arrives to attend a meeting with the-then French prime minister at the Matignon Hotel in Paris, September 18, 2023. /CFP

France's centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem) party leader Francois Bayrou arrives to attend a meeting with the-then French prime minister at the Matignon Hotel in Paris, September 18, 2023. /CFP

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed centrist leader Francois Bayrou as France's new prime minister and tasked him with forming a government, the Elysee announced on Friday. 

Bayrou, 73, head of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) party that is allied to Macron's party, was appointed nine days after Michel Barnier's government was ousted by parliament in a historic no-confidence vote.

(With input from agencies)

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