The day after Elisabeth Borne’s general policy speech, Bruno Jeudy returns to the cabinet reshuffle.
Emmanuel Macron’s march is stationary. It had already taken him twenty-one days to appoint his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne. He will have needed fifteen to reorganize his government. Since 2017, the President of the Republic had accustomed us to making political moves with his successive governments. From the appointment of LR Édouard Philippe to that of Jean Castex, from the poaching of right-wing figures such as Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin to that of the socialists Jean-Yves Le Drian and Olivier Dussopt, the Head of State had demonstrated his strong ability to attract. And then, the soufflé fell again after his re-election. The time of poaching has given way to recycling, even to plastering. Already, the choice to bring Damien Abad into Elisabeth Borne’s team has proven disastrous in terms of image. Under the pressure of multiple accusations, the Minister of Solidarity did not benefit from the principle of the presumption of innocence. We can regret it. Also say that other ministers (Éric Dupond-Moretti, Gérald Darmanin, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou) were spared. But in fact, the situation of the deputy of Ain had become untenable. The war prize of the head of state had turned into a ball, according to the words of the head of government, who asked for and obtained his head. Exit Abad.
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Consolidate the political base of its majority
After the semi-failure of the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron preferred to consolidate the political base of his majority. Clearly, he opened the composition of the Borne 2 government to the only friends or almost… of François Bayrou and Édouard Philippe. This reflects the Head of State’s limited room for maneuver to poach on the right (Caroline Cayeux, the new Minister for Communities, had already distanced herself from LR) and on the left (Olivier Klein, new Minister Delegate for Housing and Ville, moved away from the PS). Result: the president formed a macronist government by recycling in particular ex-ministers (including the indestructible Marlène Schiappa, three portfolios in five years). The only novelties: two men from civil society (the emergency doctor François Braun in Health and the boss of the Red Cross, Jean-Christophe Combe, in Solidarity) complete a government that is neither solid nor sustainable. The cat is skinny and that won’t move any voices in the Assembly.