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The Economist
The Economist
23 Sep 2024


NextImg:France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
Europe | French evolution

France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right

Can Prime Minister Michel Barnier bring stability?

|Paris

EUROPE IS A continent of coalition governments, painful to forge and fragile to maintain. Most European politicians are familiar with their challenges. For Michel Barnier’s new French government, however, which met for its first cabinet meeting on September 23rd, this form of rule is a baffling novelty. For the first time since France’s Fifth Republic was established in 1958, the country is now run by a minority coalition government formed by rival parties that stood against each other at legislative elections. Its survival depends on keeping its lumpy mix of centrists and right-wingers together, and the opposition against it divided.

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