New French PM named  | Report.az

French President Emmanuel Macron named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country’s new prime minister shortly after Edouard Philippe’s resignation,

President Emmanuel Macron wants a new government to focus on efforts to relaunch the French economy deeply hit by the coronavirus crisis.

Édouard Philippe, the prime minister of France, has tendered his government’s resignation after seeing the country through the coronavirus pandemic.

The Élysée Palace announced that Philippe, an increasingly popular figure during the crisis, had submitted resignation but would remain as head of an interim government until the president, Emmanuel Macron, carried out a reshuffle and named his successor.