New French President Emmanuel Macron named centre-right lawmaker Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister in a further effort to splinter the country's traditional parties and redraw the political map. <br/><br/>Philippe, a little known 46-year old MP and Mayor of the northern port of Le Havre, comes from the moderate wing of the rightwing Republicans party and is seen as a pragmatist. His appointment was seen as a strategic move by 39-year old Macron, who is trying to woo modernisers of all stripes to his new centrist party, the Republique en Marche.