French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as prime minister nearly two months after France’s snap elections led to political impasse.
Mr Barnier, 73, is the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator and led talks with the UK authorities between 2016 and 2019.
A veteran of the right-wing Republicans (LR) occasion, he has had a protracted political profession and stuffed varied senior posts, each in France and inside the EU.
He’ll now need to kind a authorities that might want to survive a Nationwide Meeting divided into three large political blocs, with none capable of kind a transparent majority.
Two years in the past Mr Barnier stated he wished to tackle President Macron for the French presidency, saying he wished to restrict and take management of immigration. He finally did not be the chosen as a candidate by his occasion.
Mr Barnier can be France’s oldest prime minister because the Fifth Republic got here into being in 1958.
He’s set to succeed Gabriel Attal, France’s youngest ever prime minister, who President Macron first appointed prime minister in early 2024 and who has stayed in submit as caretaker since July.
