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After months of political uncertainty following a snap legislative election, France appeared on the cusp of a new government on Thursday, as Prime Minister Michel Barnier was set to present his cabinet to President Emmanuel Macron. Macron appointed Barnier, the European Union's former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister two weeks ago. Barnier has struggled to name a new government, underlining the complicated topography of France's political landscape after Macron's ill-fated decision to call a snap legislative election.
The early July vote delivered an unruly hung parliament that has left political unity hard to come by, leaving France in the hands of a caretaker government. It is now up to Macron to approve Barnier's cabinet. BFM TV reported that Barnier had proposed conservative Senator Bruno Retailleau as interior minister, while Jean-Noel Barrot would be promoted to foreign minister, after formerly occupying the European affairs post in the ministry.
"The prime minister will have to learn how to engage with an assembly that resembles a cauldron of various sensibilities and temperaments to build a majority," EuroIntelligence said in a note..
