he reframes two ministers after their remarks on the Cayeux affair

The management of the controversy around Caroline Cayeux, appointed Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Territorial Communities in the new government is slipping. Government communication is struggling to manage the crisis around these homophobic remarks by the government member. In 2013, the minister had made inappropriate remarks during the vote on the law for marriage for all. While she was a senator at the time, she called this reform “of whim and design that goes against nature”.

Caroline Cayeux apologized for these words, but she did not convince everyone. In particular his colleagues who did not understand his behavior. Among them Clément Beaune and Marlène Schiappa, who publicly expressed their disapproval. “Caroline Cayeux, who is in government with me, made extremely hurtful remarks, I told her. I am one of ‘those people’”said Clément Beaune.

Emmanuel Macron would have been annoyed by this opposition frankly assumed by the two ministers. The chained Duck reveals that the President of the Republic would have expressed his disappointment at seeing his ministers turn away from group cohesion. “You don’t shoot at an ambulance”, would have declared Emmanuel Macron, according to The chained Duck.

Elisabeth Borne comes to support the president

Emmanuel Macron was not the only one to call the teams to order. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne also raised her voice to remind us that we had to play as a team. “We don’t hit colleagues! We must never push our necks to exist”, she would have launched to her ministers, reports the Canard Enchaîné. Marlène Schiappa and Clément Beaune were the only members of the government to criticize Caroline Cayeux in public, but other ministers also did so anonymously in the press.

After mixed presidential and legislative elections for supporters of Emmanuel Macron, the call for solidarity and cohesion is constantly hammered home by the Head of State. The President and the Prime Minister who have struggled to bring together a solid government must still find the right tempo to build a real front.

Difficult to carry out a political project for the government which connects legal cases and blunders. “Between Abad and the Stade de France controversy, they did not make things easy for me”, would have launched exasperated Elisabeth Borne according to the Parisianbeginning of July.