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Hotel de Matignon, Paris – 5 September 2024
1. Wide of courtyard with crowd gathered for the handover ceremony
2. Mid of crowd
3. Outgoing and incoming Prime Ministers Gabriel Attal and Michel Barnier walking down red carpet
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Barnier, French Prime Minister:
"It will be about responding as much as we can to the challenges, anger that you talked about, to the suffering, to the feeling of abandonment, injustice that run, far too much, through our cities, our neighborhoods and our countryside."
5. Wide of crowd watching
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Barnier, French Prime Minister:
"It will ultimately require a lot of listening, a lot of respect. First of all, respect between the government and parliament, respect toward all political forces that are represented and I’m going to start calling them from this evening, respect as well toward social partners (unions), economic partners and vis-a-vis local officials who are a credit to our Republic in the field."
7. Wide of Attal and Barnier shaking hands, zooming in
8. Various of Attal greeting crowd and leaving
STORYLINE:
New French Prime Minister Michel Barnier addressed a crowd during a handover ceremony with his predecessor Gabriel Attal.
Speaking outside Hotel de Matignon in Paris, Barnier said about his new role, "It will be about responding as much as we can to the challenges."
"It will ultimately require a lot of listening, a lot of respect. First of all, respect between the government and parliament, respect toward all political forces that are represented," he added.
President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister on Thursday, hoping the Brexit negotiator and veteran conservative can work with the country’s bitterly divided legislature and end the political turmoil that has roiled Macron’s presidency.
Barnier, 73, is the oldest of the 26 prime ministers that have served modern France’s Fifth Republic. He replaces the youngest, Gabriel Attal, who was 34 when he was appointed just eight months ago.
Barnier’s appointment ends more than 50 days of a caretaker government in France but offers no guarantee of a return to political calm.
He faces the tough task of having to work with the acrimonious and deeply divided hung parliament that emerged from an early legislative election Macron called in June.
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