2023-07-21 05:43:14
For days or even weeks that the rumor rustled. The reshuffle was made official on Thursday. Among the main changes, Gabriel Attal becomes Minister of Education in replacement of Pap Ndiaye, while Aurélien Rousseau takes the portfolio of François Braun in Health. Aurore Bergé, the patron saint of Macronist deputies in the Assembly, enters the government. She replaces Jean-Christophe Combe at the Ministry of Solidarity.
Weakened after several controversies, Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, is also leaving. “I didn’t always succeed but I always tried,” she told BFM TV. The MoDem Philippe Vigier is for his part appointed to the Overseas Territories, under the supervision of Gérald Darmanin. “It’s a lot of satisfaction,” he rejoices with the Parisian. Marseille MP Sabrina Agresti-Roubache becomes Minister for the City, Thomas Cazenave MP for Public Accounts. The mayor of Dunkirk, Patrice Vergriete, becomes housing minister.
Bérengère Couillard, who held the position of Secretary of State in charge of Ecology, has been appointed Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, in place of Isabelle Rome. For her part, Renaissance MP Prisca Thevenot has been appointed as Secretary of State for Youth and Universal National Service. She succeeds Sarah El Haïry, who will now be in charge of Biodiversity within the new government team of Élisabeth Borne.
Another novelty of the day: the appointment of Fadila Khattabi, president of the social affairs commission, as minister delegate in charge of disabled people.
Earlier this week, Elisabeth Borne was maintained as Prime Minister. His fate was uncertain at the end of the “hundred days of appeasement” promised by Emmanuel Macron after the adoption of the pension reform. Certain names, in particular that of Gérald Darmanin, had been mentioned as potential new occupants of the Hôtel de Matignon.
The President of the Republic had received all his ministers on Tuesday evening during a dinner at the Élysée. “I know that these moments are never pleasant,” Macron announced to the assembly present. “I want to thank you and thank those who share your life. A situation described as “baroque” by a heavyweight of the majority.
Legislative battles to come
The next day, it was the parliamentarians of the majority that the president had met at the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, in an atmosphere more or less similar to the buffet organized the day before. “These are never very pleasant moments”, repeated the president, arguing that “we must always go through them with the maximum of calm, collective spirit and respect”.
In the absence of an absolute majority in the Assembly, the legislative battles remain numerous for Elisabeth Borne. In particular, she will have to defend the immigration bill in the face of an opposition determined to fight it out, as well as the 2024 budget, on which the Prime Minister could again brandish the controversial article 49.3.
The horizon is also darkening for the executive on the side of public opinion. 56% of French people believe that Elisabeth Borne is a “bad” Prime Minister, despite a slight improvement in her image, according to an Elabe poll for BFMTV published on Wednesday. In addition, at least 8 out of 10 French people believe that Emmanuel Macron has “missed” his “100 days”.
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