BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – MARCH 05: The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks throughout a convention following the primary spherical of negotiations between the UK and the EU in Brussels, Belgium on March 05, 2020.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister in a bid to finish political impasse which has slowed down the nation since early July.
Macron tasked Barnier with forming a authorities on Thursday, in accordance with an announcement issued by the Elysee Palace.
The 73-year-old Conservative now faces a no-confidence vote within the decrease home of parliament earlier than taking up.
The announcement hopes to finish weeks of political unrest and resolve the difficulty with the higher home of parliament that arose after the shock victory of the five-party left-wing New Folks’s Entrance coalition within the July 7 runoff. Macron’s centrist Collectively bloc got here second within the polls, with the far-right Nationwide Meeting third.
Neither faction achieved the 289 seats wanted to win an absolute majority, plunging France right into a caretaker authorities throughout the closely mediated summer season interval when the nation hosted the extremely attended Olympics.
Macron accepted the resignation of the previous Prime Minister Gabriel Atal on July 16after the election outcomes.
Barnier is not any stranger to native French management and has beforehand held 4 cupboard positions, together with setting minister, minister of state for European affairs, overseas affairs minister and agriculture and fisheries minister.
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— CNBC’s Charlotte Reid contributed to this report.
