French government: an imminent reshuffle to finally launch the five-year term

Published on: 04/07/2022 – 07:49 After the time of consultations, the test of fire: Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne are preparing to reshuffle the government, a tightrope walker exercise to take into account the new balances at the Assembly, where the Prime Minister, under pressure, will present her project on Wednesday. Soon a government at work? Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne are putting the finishing touches to the puzzle of the new government, whose imminent announcement must finally launch the second five-year term of the Head of State. The new president of the Renaissance group (ex-LREM) at the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, underlined, Sunday, July 3, at midday “wait for this reshuffle in the coming hours”. Once formed, this “collective” will be “there to respond to the concerns of the French”, at the first rank of which that of purchasing power, and will be “permanently installed, because we are here to last”, she argued to the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. Among the names of possible entrants regularly cited in recent hours, those of Frédéric Valletoux, mayor Horizons of Fontainebleau and president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), Philippe Juvin, LR deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, Jean Rottner, president LR of the Grand-Est region, and Arnaud Robinet, Horizons mayor of Reims (Marne). But also Catherine Vautrin, former Minister of Social Cohesion of Jacques Chirac for a time approached for Matignon the day after the presidential election, Jean-Marc Zulesi, Renaissance MP, Fabienne Keller, Renaissance MEP, and the possible returns of Joël Giraud and Sarah El Haïry, Secretaries of State in charge of Rurality and Youth respectively in the previous five-year term. The common point of the new members of the government will be ” to be able to share the roadmap which was chosen by the French” with the election of Emmanuel Macron, underlines Aurore Bergé, suggesting that the oppositions demanding a pro jet “amended” will be for their expense.Replacing the ministers who failed in the legislative If building the balance of a new team is always complex, the exercise is this time even more so after the slap of the loss of the absolute majority in the National Assembly in June, which should oblige the executive to increase the place of the partners of Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons, and to try to take hold on the right or on the left, within the framework of the political “overrun” advocated by Emmanuel Macron. A heavyweight in the government mentioned on Friday the need to have above all “competent” ministers, and having “mastery of Parliament” where compromises will have to be built. >> To read: Yaël Braun-Pivet, an ascent flash on the perch of the National AssemblyFor the president of the MoDem François Bayrou, faced with the “serious” questions encountered by France, “it is good that there are political figures, who have in mind that the problems of the country do not do not cut file by file er”, he underlined on LCI on Sunday, implicitly warning against too technocratic profiles. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has thus multiplied meetings with the bosses of groups in the Assembly in recent days, to end with discussions with Emmanuel Macron on Friday. The first is to replace the three ministers who failed in the legislative elections, all women, while continuing to respect parity: Amélie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition), Brigitte Bourguignon (Health) and Justine Benin (Sea). Not to mention Yaël Braun-Pivet (Overseas), who has just been elected President of the National Assembly. Deciding on the case of Damien Abad, accused of attempted rape A sensitive subject, the case of Damien Abad (Solidarity) will also be decided, while the minister is under investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office for attempted rape after a woman’s complaint for events that allegedly took place at a party in 2010.”The Prime Minister will take the right decision in the hours to come” about him, assures Aurore Bergé, noting that “from the moment you have an open investigation, we then have people who are prevented from exercising their function”.>> At read: Legislative: deprived of an absolute majority, the executive facing a reinvigorated AssemblyThe tone is different for Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, the Secretary of State for Development who is reproached by patients for gestures that they consider to be “rape” when she practiced as a gynecologist: e She has “clearly all my support”, emphasizes Aurore Bergé. to close what has seemed like a long period of uncertainty for the executive since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron on April 24, almost two and a half months ago. The long-awaited bill on purchasing power will arrive before the Assembly on July 18, with the aim of its adoption “before the end of July and the beginning of August maximum, to have very rapid effects for the French”, underlined Yaël Braun-Pivet on Sunday on France 3. With AFP