France edged closer to having a new government, more than two months after a hung election, as new Prime Minister Michel Barnier's office said he had pulled together a list of ministers he will submit to President Emmanuel Macron later on Thursday.

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier Saturday, marked by a shift to the right 11 weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary election. The first major task for Barnier,

French President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister Thursday, nearly two months after legislative elections that kept the far right from power but left France in an unprecedented political deadlock.