At the end of the Council of Ministers, the government spokesperson said that “the time for individual decisions and appointments did not come”.
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The suspense will last several days. At the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, May 4, the government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that the government of Jean Castex “will remain in place” until May 13, at least. This date corresponds to the last official day of the first term of Emmanuel Macron.
“The calendar is known institutionally: there is Emmanuel Macron’s nomination on Saturday, there is the first five -year term, which ends on May 13 at midnight,” said Gabriel Attal, before specifying: “The Government Castex will go to the end of its task and remain in place until the end of the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron. “During this press conference, Mr. Attal also said that” the time of individual decisions and appointments did not come. No proposal has been made to anyone “.
Since his re -election, on April 24, Emmanuel Macron reflected in the greatest secrecy of the composition of a new government as well as his future majority, a few weeks before the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. This phase of uncertainty places under tension ministers and parliamentarians, in the vagueness as to their future.
a Prime Minister “attached to the social and environmental question”
m. Macron, however, gave some information about the profile he would like to see as Prime Minister. On the move to Cergy, on April 27, the Head of State said that the new head of government will have to be “attached to the social question, the environmental question and the productive question”. “I believe in overtaking, the political color does not say everything,” said Macron. “Jean Castex came from the right. He has led one of the most social policies of the last decades, because he is also a man of heart and he has social fiber,” added the head of state, leaving All doors open on the name of the successor of the former mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).
Tuesday, the presidency announced that the inauguration ceremony of the re -elected president, which marks the starting point for his second mandate, will take place on Saturday May 7. From 11 am, at the Elysée Palace, the president of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, will proclaim the official results of the second round of the presidential election. After his gratitude as a great master of the national order of the Legion of Honor, Emmanuel Macron will make a speech of a few minutes.
At noon, the head of state will make the “review of the troops in the gardens”, specifies the presidency. After the “Salvation of the Canon”, a Marseillaise will be played by the Republican Guard orchestra. The ceremony will end with a review “of an interarmed detachment” by M. Macron.