It took Emmanuel Macron a month to compose a government after his re-election as President of the Republic on April 24. France, where everything stems from the Head of State, is however not Belgium or Germany, parliamentary democracies where coalition partners negotiate for weeks before signing the bottom of the contract. But the tenant of the Elysée, who promised the ” revolution “ in 2017, sometimes likes to take detours before returning to its starting point.
Half of his new team, announced on Friday May 20, is made up of outgoing ministers (fifteen out of twenty-eight, including the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne), to which must be added executives and elected officials well known to the majority, or former advisers. This did not prevent the Head of State from taking a few side roads.
On April 26, two days after the election, the ministers of the former team expect to join Matignon for a farewell dinner with their spouses. The government of Jean Castex has lived. On the strength of his new victory against Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron quickly wants to show the French the color of change: more ecology, more listening, more consideration.
Keeping the promise of 2017
The ambition is to bring together a new cast for the Council of Ministers on May 4. It fizzles; dinner is postponed indefinitely. The choice of men has always been a complicated science for Emmanuel Macron. Especially when it comes to women.
The Head of State wants to keep his promise of 2017 to install one in Matignon for the first time since Edith Cresson (1991-1992). The former director of the cabinet of Manuel Valls, Véronique Bédague, is probed; She refuses. The president of the socialist group in the National Assembly, Valérie Rabault, receives text messages from a mysterious emissary, who is testing her will to become prime minister, or simply a minister. She cries out. “Why don’t you keep Jean Castex? », she asks. The idea was toyed with, as one becomes attached to a fetish.
The former mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) likes Matignon, but he himself recognizes that a new dynamic must be initiated. His profile as a local elected representative and representative of the social right was so popular that Emmanuel Macron would like to combine it with the feminine.
That’s good, his political adviser, Thierry Solère, won the support of Catherine Vautrin, president of Greater Reims and former minister under Jacques Chirac, who held the portfolios of social cohesion and equal opportunities during the campaign. This close friend of Jean-Louis Borloo – a friend of Thierry Solère – joined the committees of local elected officials launched by Minister Sébastien Lecornu, another friend of the adviser. During the between-two rounds, she signed, with 38 local elected women following her, a platform in the Sunday newspaper against Marine Le Pen.
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