Council of Ministers postponed, thanks from Emmanuel Macron… The signals of an imminent reshuffle?

Lots of questions, few answers. This is the general feeling that ran through the political sphere this Sunday after the wishes pronounced by Emmanuel Macron. A speech which will not have frankly decided the future of the government of Elisabeth Borne, at the center of all the speculations. However, while a possible reshuffle is on everyone’s minds, the postponement of the very first Council of Ministers of the year, initially scheduled for Wednesday, has only fueled the rumor.

To justify this cancellation, Emmanuel Macron’s entourage explains that since the start of the school year is next week, it was more logical for the inaugural Council of Ministers for the year 2024 to be held on January 10. We also raise a problem with the agenda, emphasizing that the Prime Minister, currently traveling in Guyana, will not return to Paris until Tuesday.

Thanks that raise questions

Despite everything, this change in calendar questions and confirms, according to some, the imminence of a reshuffle. Some people also believe they have detected a clue in favor of this scenario in the wishes of the Head of State when he sent his thanks to Élisabeth Borne and her government. “All these past months have therefore been far from the helplessness that we were predicted. And that is fortunate. And I particularly want to thank the Prime Minister and her government,” he declared.

Words that are not really usual in the mouth of Emmanuel Macron and which were quickly interpreted, by part of the presidential camp, as a way of saying goodbye to a government which was torn apart, just before the holidays, during the adoption of the immigration law. Certain pillars of the majority have even publicly demanded the reshuffle, like François Bayrou on December 24.