Emmanuel Macron’s new government faces no-confidence votes less than 12 hours after it was unveiled
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.
Minutes after the line-up was announced, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the radical Left party France Unbowed (LFI), described the cabinet as a familiar cast of players from a “disaster movie” that the country has seen before.
“We need to get rid of it as soon as possible,” he said on X.
Jordan Bardella, leader of the far-Right National Rally (RN), was also quick to denounce the new government, which excludes deputies from both the Leftist bloc the New Popular Front (NFP) and the RN. The NFP includes France Unbowed, Socialists, Greens and the Communists.