Elizabeth Borne, France's new prime minister

Macron and Elizabeth Borne are expected to appoint all other members of the new government in the coming days.

Its knowledge of the internal work of the state and French trade unions will help it pass already announced reforms, including Macron's most controversial pre-election promise concerning growing retirement age, broadcast foreign media.

The last woman as prime minister was briefly Edith Cresson, while in the early 1990s France's president was Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand.