Jacques Serais / Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP
A Wednesday almost like the others for the executive. As tradition dictates, President Emmanuel Macron took part in the Council of Ministers in the morning. A weekly meeting, followed this Wednesday by a government seminar to establish the parliamentary roadmap of the majority.
The content of the exchanges between the Head of State and the party leaders during the famous “Saint-Denis meetings” was to be on the menu of discussions during this seminar. Only, the report, promised quickly by the president, is still awaited. The oppositions like the ministers will therefore remain in the dark until Emmanuel Macron has completed his synthesis.
“This letter will be sent in the near future”
The Head of State worked on it alone this weekend, slips an adviser. “This letter will be sent in the near future,” tried to reassure another, before Olivier Véran, government spokesperson, mentioned a letter sent “in the next few hours”. It must be said that Emmanuel Macron can only count on himself, because no member of his entourage was able to attend these meetings in Saint-Denis.
Consequently, this Wednesday morning, the members of the government worked on the main axes set by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne last April, namely work, reindustrialization, ecological transition, public services, justice and order. republican.
Last Renovation activists pour orange paint
Note that the traditional post-government appointment family photo should have been taken during this meeting, but the session was canceled due to the absence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, who tested positive for coronavirus. Finally, while the ministers were at the palace, activists from the Last Renovation collective poured orange paint on the asphalt, place Beauvau, a hundred meters from the Elysée, to denounce “the government’s climate inaction”.