On Saturday night Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, unveiled his new centre-Right cabinet, awarding plum posts such as interior and finance ministers to mainstream conservatives and Macron allies, provoking anger from the opposition and threats to topple the government.

The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.

The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election.

The team put together by the new prime minister combines Macron loyalists with a dozen elected representatives from the most conservative right. It's a far cry from the social-democratic roots of Emmanuel Macron's early supporters.

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier Saturday (Sep 21), marked by a shift to the right 11 weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary e

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Antoine Armand as finance minister, thrusting a 33-year-old with limited political experience into an urgent budget battle in which he must maintain tacit support from the far right to avoid government collapse.

President Emmanuel Macron has announced his new government nearly three months after a snap general election in France resulted in a hung parliament.

Citing comments by former prime minister Gabriel Attal to his party after meeting with Barnier, BFM TV said there was a deal on a government of 16 ministers and 22 junior ministers, from centrist and conservative parties. Neither Attal nor Barnier made any comment.