New French PM Bayrou hopes to form new government in coming days

PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The new French prime minister Francois Bayrou has told France’s National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday that he hopes to form a new government in the coming days.

France’s previous government, led by Michel Barnier, fell earlier in December after it failed to find enough support for a budget aimed at taming a wide deficit. (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, Writing by Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten)

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