The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.

France finally got a new government Saturday in a shift to the right, as left-wing protesters took to the streets to denounce what they say is a denial of July's election results.The cabinet announced by French President Emmanuel Macron and led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier comes 11 weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary election.

The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election.

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Antoine Armand as finance minister, thrusting a 33-year-old with limited political experience into an urgent budget battle in which he must maintain tacit support from the far right to avoid government collapse.

In his first interview, the new French Minister of Economy, Antoine Armand, said that tax increases will not solve the country's economic problems. Instead, he said, public spending should be reduced and the middle class supported.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday unveiled a new government that will be dominated by conservatives and centrists. It will be led by the newly elected prime minister, Michel Barnier. This comes more than two months after snap elections that produced a hung parliament.