2024-01-11 19:46:35
Rachida Dati will be the big surprise in the government remodeling agreed in the last hours between French President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, the most precocious of the Fifth Republic. The former Minister of Justice during the presidency of Nicolás Sarkozy, defeated in the last municipal elections of 2020 in Paris by the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, will be part of an Executive in which several heavyweights of Macronism such as Bruno Le Maire repeat in their positions. Economy, Gérald Darmanin in Interior or Eric Dupond-Moretti in Justice.
Sébastien Lecornu will remain at the head of the Armed Forces portfolio and Prisca Thevenot, Secretary of State for Youth since July, will occupy a new position as Government spokesperson, replacing Olivier Véran, reports Agence France-Press. But the profiles that the Foreign Affairs and Education portfolios will assume remain unknown at this time. The departure of the until now head of French diplomacy, Catherine Colonna, is taken for granted, and the Ministry headed by Attal has been left orphaned after his promotion to Matignon.
The complete list of ministers will be announced in the next few hours by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Alexis Kohler. Macron intends to hold the first Council of Ministers this Friday. The tenant of the Elysée is expected to appear around 7:45 p.m. in Chantilly, in the Oise region, to star in an event dedicated to promoting investments in tourism in France.
Dati, who occupies a key position in the organization chart of the traditional right of the Republicans as president of the National Council, is holding a videoconference meeting this Thursday night with the mayors of the Paris districts and the LR deputies to inform them of her decision, reports AFP. Her name is being considered for the Culture portfolio.
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