After two weeks of talks, the hope of building a stable majority with opposition deputies deemed “constructive” having passed out, the executive announced a government without war or debauchery.
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Emmanuel Macron gives a new start. But the Head of State does it on an admission of failure. After fifteen days of talks and “tense hands”, in the words of the executive, the hope of building a stable majority with the opposition parliamentarians deemed “constructive” passed out. And, with him, has disappeared briefly caressed to form a coalition. “We should take note of the lack of government willingness to participate in a government agreement or any form of coalition,” said the President of the Republic on Monday, July 4, in the introductory remarks of the Council of ministers held in the afternoon.
After the weeks of floating which followed a re -election without plume against the far right and the disappointment of the presidential camp in the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron translated this failure by the formation of a new government, announced a little more early in the morning, without warning or debauchery.
The forty-two members of the new team, including the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, are mostly known figures of Macronie. The biggest surprise is perhaps the reappearance of Marlène Schiappa, a highly media figure of the first five-year term, yesterday in charge of citizenship, today of the solidarity and responsible economy.
The rest of the government is largely assimilated to a set of musical chairs aimed at taking into account the defeats of the legislative elections – those of Burgundy Burgundy to health, from Amélie de Montchalin to the ecological transition and Justine Benin At the sea – by “plugging the boxes”, in the words of an executive advisor, “with people to us”, namely from the presidential party, rebirth, but also from its allies, the modem, act or Horizons, who had estimated himself discredited in the first version of the government.
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The reshuffle was also an opportunity to rectify certain errors of appreciation. Olivia Grégoire, speech deemed too liberated, leaves the function of government spokesperson to occupy the ministry of SMEs; It is replaced by Olivier Véran, former Minister of Health and more recently responsible for relations with Parliament. The defector of the Party Les Républicains (LR) Damien Abad, targeted by various complaints for rapes and described by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, as “a complicated subject” in an interview with the magazine she appears on Wednesday, he , indicate the exit, not without having denounced the “ignoble slander” of which he considers himself a victim.
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