Soon three months after the summer's parliamentary election, France is finally on its way to getting a new government under former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
Barnier's office tells the news agency AFP that the presentation is expected on Sunday, after various "fine-tunings".
According to Barnier's representative Gabriel Attal, President Emmanuel Macron's centrist movement will contribute at least seven of 16 ministers in the government, while the right-wing party LR gets three, the liberal Modem two, and one each for smaller parties to the center and right.
Among the Attal-ministers expected to continue working are Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu and Culture Minister Rachida Dati.
In the parliamentary election at the beginning of July, both the united left and the far-right made significant gains, but without achieving a sufficient majority. Instead, Macron's movement has sought out the traditional right to try to form a new government.
