PARIS — France's new right-wing Prime Minister Michel Barnier started consulting all sides Friday to put together a government capable of mustering a majority in parliament after two months of political deadlock.

The 73-year-old, a former foreign minister who recently acted as the European Union's Brexit negotiator, is the oldest premier in the history of modern France.

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