2023-07-20 14:27:00
It’s D-Day. The Élysée should announce this Thursday, July 20, during the afternoon, the new government of Elisabeth Borne, drawn up after long negotiations with Emmanuel Macron. “Adjustments” are planned for strategic ministries. The Prime Minister and her new team of ministers will have to take up the challenges assigned by the President at the start of the school year around ecology, immigration and the response to the riots. A first meeting awaits them on Friday, at 10 a.m., for the first council of ministers of this new political chapter.
Its magnitude will be scrutinized in the light of the hushed battle between the head of government, who, according to ministers and advisers, hoped for a substantial renewal to establish her authority, and the head of state, who, he, would only want marginal changes to keep the cartridge of a great upheaval for more difficult times. “The more we advance, the fewer ministers there are who come out,” slipped a ministerial adviser Thursday at midday.
READ ALSOPap Ndiaye: plea (impossible) for a minister beside the plateThe cast is starting to become clearer, with, in fact, a limited number of departures, including that of Pap Ndiaye, who, in the eyes of his colleagues, has not succeeded in making his mark for a year at National Education.
More questions
To replace him, the name of the current Minister of the Budget, Gabriel Attal, 34, rising star of the macronie, returns with insistence, with a guideline: to place authority at the heart of the educational project after the recent urban violence.
Also from civil society, the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe should, according to several concordant sources, be replaced by the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé.
READ ALSOCoignard – What is Marlène Schiappa for? The Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, Marlène Schiappa, is, in everyone’s opinion, about to leave after being singled out for her management of the Marianne Fund.
Questions remained about the fate of other ministers. At Health, François Braun, another representative of civil society appointed at the will of Emmanuel Macron, was present Thursday morning, with a certain panache, at the microphone of BFMTV / RMC when his departure was given as probable the day before. Several names, including that of Horizons deputy Frédéric Valletoux, have even filtered to succeed him. Did he finally manage to save his chair? “I am at work, I am at my task”, “more than ever” Minister of Health, he limited himself to answering.
Dinner at the Élysée Palace, aperitif to mark the end of a particularly turbulent parliamentary session: the last few days have sometimes turned into torture for the ministers in uncertainty.
Difficult return
“These are never very pleasant moments”, but “we must always go through them with the maximum of calm, collective spirit and respect”, conceded Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening before the parliamentarians who support him, gathered at the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester – himself threatened, but with a more “serene” face than the day before according to participants.
The president has set his camp the roadmap for the return to school to be rolled out with “boldness”, “innovation” and a “unifying” line: “innovate” to respond to the riots, “invent an ecology of progress and solutions” and seize the explosive subject of immigration so as not to let “the extremes feed”.
READ ALSO“Lynching” of Macron: the incredible silence of politicians and intellectualsHowever, the government still does not have an absolute majority in the Assembly. After the ordeal of pensions fire last winter, Elisabeth Borne will once again fight with 49.3 to have the 2024 budget adopted against opposition determined to fight it out. So many deadlines on which the Prime Minister could therefore stumble, after having already narrowly escaped a motion of censure on pensions.
“What interests the French is not to know if we are going to replace strangers with other strangers”, tackled Thursday on France 2 the deputy Les Républicains Pierre-Henri Dumont, estimating “that by keeping the same Prime Minister, we can see very well that the course has no chance of being changed”. “I don’t really care who is going to get on the Titanic “, also quipped the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, on CNews.
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