President Emmanuel Macron redraws France's political map

After a resounding victory in the French National Assembly election, French President Emmanuel Macron has begun building a government apparatus, redrawing the political map of France with ambitious labor, economic, social and security reform programs as he pledged during the election campaign.

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

On June 19, President Macron reappointed Mr. Edouard Philippe to the position of French Prime Minister.

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

President Macron has also asked a close ally of his, Minister for Regional Cohesion Richard Ferrand, to leave the cabinet to serve the investigation of a number of recent allegations.

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

However, French media recently reported that this politician favored his wife in a real estate rental deal in 2011.

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

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

According to the results of the second round of votes - the final round of the French National Assembly election, the REM party and the 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 of support a French president has had in the past 60 years.

France's new parliament is attracting special public attention, as it is a young parliament - with an average age six years younger than previous terms - and especially less politically experienced than previous terms, as the REM party was only established 14 months ago.

This term of the French National Assembly also has a record number of female parliamentarians with 224 people, accounting for 38.8% of the seats in the National Assembly, while this rate in the previous term was 25.8%.

According to Vietnamplus