2024-01-09 11:13:30
Pending the appointment of the new Prime Minister and the new government
The announcement of the appointment of the new prime minister, first hoped for Monday evening, is expected late Tuesday morning. Gabriel Attal, 34, a Macronist from the start and Minister of Education for less than six months, is cited by many sources as a favorite. If his appointment to Matignon is confirmed, he would then become the young prime minister of the Fifth Republic and the first to make no secret of his homosexuality.
The first task of the future Prime Minister will be to offer Emmanuel Macron the momentum that his second five-year term has not yet found. This ex-Strauss-Kahnist, loyal to the president, who has been through several government positions since 2018 and whose communicator qualities are recognized, will first have to form a new government, under the sign of “rearmament” praised by the Head of State during his New Year’s greetings. “industrial, economic, European rearmament” but also “civic”particularly around the vast school project that the latter began to bring to the Ministry of Education in recent months, by initiating several large-scale reforms, without them achieving unanimity within the body teacher.
It remains to be seen whether the change of government will be significant and whether there will be many people leaving. Several close to the president, including François Bayrou, the president of MoDem, are calling for a tightening of the government team which currently has 39 members.
In the meantime, Tuesday morning, Transport Minister Clément Beaune was on deck to manage the road chaos in Ile-de-France after unforeseen nighttime snowfall. The leader of the energy transition, Christophe Béchu, was expected in Pas-de-Calais to discuss the floods which affected the department. Evidence according to an Elysian source of the “continuity of the State”.
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