Edouard Philippe is France’s new PM

New French President Emmanuel Macron named centre-right lawmaker Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister in a further effort to splinter the country’s traditional parties and redraw the political map.
Philippe, a little known 46-year-old MP and mayor of the northern port of Le Havre, comes from the moderate wing of the right-wing Republicans party.

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