Michelle barer has promised to respond to the anger of the people in his first speech as prime minister of France speaking at the Handover ceremony with his predecessor Gabriel atal in Paris barer said his new role would concentrate on fixing a raft of problems causing resentment among French voters president Emanuel macron named barier France's new prime minister on Thursday hoping the veteran conservative can work with the country's bitterly divided legislature B's appointment ends more than 50 days of a caretaker government in France and he faces the tough task of having to work with an acrimonious and deeply divided hung Parliament that emerged from a snap election macron called in June with Michelle barer in matino as prime minister the president remains clearly in power he is not challenged by his prime minister uh the extreme moderation conciliatory character of his prime minister is a plus he's a loyal veteran of the recently renamed right-wing Republican right party and has had a long political career in France and the EU he served twice as a European commissioner and between 2016 and 2021 was the chief EU negotiator for brexit barer will now have to survive a confidence vote in the National Assembly Fran's lower House of Parliament [Applause]