François Bayrou has been named as the new French Prime Minister after months of political turmoil.
The 73-year-old is a mayor from the southwest of the country and leads the centrist MoDem party.
It comes nine days after French MPs ousted former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, with President Emmanuel Macron hoping to end the deadlock.
President Macron has already held talks with leaders from all the main political parties, with the exception of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and hard-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen.
Democratic Movement (MoDem) party leader Francois Bayrou is set to become the new Prime Minister of France
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Outside the Elysee presidential Palace after French President named centrist Francois Bayrou as Prime Minister
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Three centre-left parties, the Socialists, Greens and Communists, have broken ranks with the harder-left LFI and took part in talks on forming a new government.
Whist Marine Le Pen has called for her party’s policies on the cost of living to be taken into account by the incoming government, by building a budget that “doesn’t cross each party’s red lines.”
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