Paris, 20 September 2024 (dpa/MIA) - The government of new French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will be presented on Saturday rather than on Friday as initially expected, the government in Paris has announced.

The government said that "final adjustments" were still being made, according to reports in the French media.

Two weeks after his appointment, the conservative former EU commissioner presented the make-up of his future centre-right government to President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday evening following difficult consultations.

In the early parliamentary elections just over two months ago, the left-wing alliance surprisingly landed in first place - ahead of Macron's centrist forces and the far-right nationalists led by Marine Le Pen of the National Rally party, who had even been predicted to take first place at one point.

None of the blocs received an absolute majority, and no party, even with partners, managed to form a governing majority.

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