Emmanuel Macron is beginning his first day as French president, with picking a prime minster top of his to-do list.
The appointment is crucial for Mr Macron, who needs to do well in next month's parliamentary elections to push through his planned economic reforms.
Later he will travel to Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The 39-year-old former investment banker and economy minister was inaugurated yesterday in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace.
He promised to convince people that "the power of France is not declining - that we are on the brink of a great renaissance".
Mr Macron has kept his choice of prime minister a closely guarded secret, but the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the candidate most hotly tipped is Édouard Philippe, the mayor of Le Havre.
Mr Philippe is not a member of the president's new party - La République En Marche - but of the centre-right Republicans.
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