President Emmanuel Macron is redrawing the political map of France.

Following his resounding victory in the French parliamentary elections, French President Emmanuel Macron has begun building his government, redrawing the political map of France with ambitious labor, economic, social, and security reform programs, as he promised during his election campaign.

French President Emmanuel Macron at an event in Paris on May 14. (Source: EPA/VNA)

On June 19, President Macron reappointed Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister of France.

Edouard Philippe's immediate task is to form a new cabinet, which is expected to be announced at 4 PM (GMT) on June 21st – 11 PM the same day in Vietnam time.

President Macron also asked a close ally, Minister for Regional Cohesion Richard Ferrand, to leave the cabinet to assist with an investigation into recent allegations.

Ferrand, one of the first in the Socialist Party to declare his support for President Macron, was considered a strong candidate for the position of French Interior Minister in the new cabinet.

However, recent reports in the French media suggest that this politician favored his wife in a real estate lease deal in 2011.

He denied all the allegations, asserting that everything he did was "legal, open, and transparent."

Also on June 19, President Macron announced he was seeking a new leader for the ruling Republic on the Move (REM) party in the new parliament.

According to the results of the second and final round of the French parliamentary elections, the REM party and its Democratic Movement (MoDem) alliance won 351 seats, far exceeding the absolute majority (289 seats) out of a total of 577 seats in the lower house.

This is considered the largest majority vote of support a French president has received in about 60 years.

The new French parliament is attracting particular public attention, as it is a young parliament – ​​with an average age six years younger than in previous terms – and especially has less political experience than previous terms, due to the REM party being founded only 14 months ago.

This term's French Parliament also boasts a record number of female members, with 224 women, accounting for 38.8% of the seats in Parliament, compared to 25.8% in the previous term.

According to Vietnamplus