The cabinet announced on Wednesday by the government of France’s newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, is made up of a carefully chosen cast of characters meant to signal how he plans to govern.
It has some appointments from the left and some from the right; it is evenly divided between career politicians and those who come from the private sector or nonprofits. And it has equal numbers of men and women.
“It is a government of renewal,” the presidential press office said in a statement on Wednesday.
But legislative elections are scheduled for June 11 and 18, and if Macron’s En Marche! party