France's new PM tilts his cabinet to the right - BBC News

Gabriel Attal calls in new faces alongside heavyweights from the outgoing government.

21 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin (L), pictured with the new PM, was a protégé of Nicolas SarkozyBy Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParisFrance's youngest ever PM Gabriel Attal has kept on most of the heavyweights from the outgoing government.

But his cabinet - named on Thursday - also contains some interesting new faces.

Mr Attal's own former partner Stéphane Séjourné is at foreign affairs, while Sarkozy-era minister Rachida Dati is at culture.

The cabinet's profile is clearly more skewed to the right than previous ones under President Emmanuel Macron.

Gone it seems is the careful preservation of left-right balance. Today the only members of the government with a past in the Socialist Party (PS) are Mr Attal himself and Mr Séjourné (though Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti also has been identified with the left in the past).

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