Director, chief, special adviser… how does a ministerial cabinet work?

A few hours from a reshuffle, all eyes are on the possible future ministers who will constitute the new government of Elisabeth Borne. Behind the scenes of the ministries, another waltz is preparing, more discreet but just as important: that of their cabinets, real machines of power. In Matignon, where she already started, it was Aurélien Rousseau, former boss of the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency, who was chosen to occupy the highest position, chief of staff. “It’s a little scary but when you have to go, you have to go!” he confided to the newspaper Le Monde.