The Minister of the Interior is also a candidate for the legislative elections in the North, the Keeper of the Seals has given up on the elections of June 12 and 19. Both have been renewed at their post.
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He did everything to stay in Vendôme and, unlike expectations, was finally heard. After two years at the head of the Ministry of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, 61, was renewed in his functions by Emmanuel Macron in the new government of Elisabeth Borne. With Bruno Le Maire to the economy and Gérald Darmanin inside, he is the third figure of the Castex team to remain at the head of the sovereign ministry he occupied.
Several names had circulated in recent weeks, from Bruno Lasserre to Florence Parly or Yaël Braun-Pivet, before this announcement made Friday afternoon by the secretary general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler. Eric Dupond-Moretti had also not spared his sentence during the presidential campaign to defend Emmanuel Macron in the media and shoot red balls on the Marine Le Pen program. “I measure the honor which is mine to be able to continue to work for the justice of our country. I will be the Minister of Dialogue, Concertation and Action,” he tweeted, immediately made the ‘Announcement that he remained in office.
The entourage of Emmanuel Macron explains the surprise maintenance of Eric Dupond-Moretti at the Ministry of Justice by a concern for “continuity”. “The action is underway”, in particular the States General of Justice, therefore “logic” was to allow the Keeper of the Seals to “continue the sites already launched”, explains an adviser to the Head of State. The entourage of Mr. Dupond-Moretti rejects the idea that this maintenance would be a surprise, believing that it stems from a misinterpretation, following the announcement of his non-candidacy in the legislative elections in the North, beginning may. Another reason invoked by the entourage of the Minister: the fact that he has a “real assessment” to justice.
“misunderstanding of the legal world”
His indictment for “illegal taking of interests” – a first for a Minister of Justice -, the requisitions of referral to the Court of Justice of the Republic taken in early May by the public prosecutor represented by François Molins and The prospect of a trial will therefore not have constituted a brake on its renewal. To the great despair of the magistrates’ unions with whom the minister maintains execrable relations.
“The poor assessment of a minister in full conflict of interests will not have prevented his maintenance. The legal world is obviously in misunderstanding. But, ultimately, it is especially the litigants who will suffer the Consequences “, tweeted the union of the magistracy. “We take note but we are worried. It is a fact that he is indicted and it is not trivial,” said in the world Catherine Vandier, national secretary of the union of magistrates, the majority union of the profession. “Justice is not repaired, contrary to what is like to repeat. There was a need for appeasement, not a divisive personality,” she adds.
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