France’s next government will not be limited to members of his own conservative faction, but will also include officials from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party, Prime Minister Michel Barnier said tonight.

In the first government concession since his appointment, the former Commissioner said his government, which does not have a majority in Parliament, would also be open to the Left.

“We need to open the door (…) to all those who want it,” Barnier said speaking to TV channel TF1. He also assured that although he has “nothing in common” with the far-right National Alarm, he “respects” its 11 million voters.

As a priority of his government he set “the control of migration flows with concrete measures” while his goal is also to “give new life to work” and not to increase France’s debt. He also said he was in favor of an “improvement” of the controversial pension reform, but without “questioning everything”.

Asked why Macron chose him as prime minister, Barnier cited “his ability to negotiate, to bring people together, to respect them, to listen to them.”