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After a weekend of negotiations, the reshuffle of the government is expected this Monday, July 4. Notable change: accused of rape, Damien Abad (Solidarity) was dismissed from the government. Newly appointed spokesperson, Olivia Grégoire has handed over her post to Olivier Véran (Relations with Parliament). The MP for the majority returns to Bercy (SME, Trade and Crafts).
Return of Marlène Schiappa, at the helm of the Social and Solidarity Economy. For his part, Gérald Darmanin remains inside. Former mayor of Angers, Christophe Béchu has taken over the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Among the newcomers, the emergency doctor François Braun inherits the Ministry of Health.
A council of ministers chaired by Emmanuel Macron is scheduled for the afternoon. The reshuffle and then the general policy speech by Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday – for which she has still not said whether she would seek the confidence of the deputies – should make it possible to close what has seemed like a long period of uncertainty for the executive since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, on April 24.
12:25 p.m. – Olivier Véran wants to be “the voice of the French”
Appointed government spokesperson, Olivier Véran carried out his transfer of power this Monday at the end of the morning. “I am committed to speaking truthfully, fairly, in the service of the French,” said the former Minister of Health on BFMTV, believing that we must “ask without taboo the question of why there is such a defiance, such a feeling of disconnection”. “Our mission is to make our action audible, to make government action within everyone’s reach”, he added, wishing to be “the voice of the French”.
“I have at heart to speak the truth, to speak justly”
Olivier Véran succeeds Olivier Grégoire as government spokesperson pic.twitter.com/fw0HEdJ6mV
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) July 4, 2022
12:18 p.m. – Reshuffle: the new headliners of the government
A new government to finally launch the five-year term. Two weeks after the legislative elections, where he lost his absolute majority, Emmanuel Macron unveiled his new executive on Monday July 4, who remains under the leadership of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, in whom the president has renewed his confidence. Caroline Cayeux, François Braun, Olivier Klein… Promoted or newcomers, overview of nominations.
The article of the political editorial staff of the Point to read here > Reshuffle: the new headliners of the government
12:16 p.m. – Roussel (PCF): “It is not the composition of the government that makes the difference”
The national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, once again made a slightly different music heard by being more wait-and-see. “Whatever the casting, it is the policy that will be conducted that is decisive. It is not the composition of the government that makes the difference, it will be the general policy discourse, ”he said on LCI. “The main thing will be played out in the National Assembly thanks to the vote of the French who did not give an absolute majority to the macronie”, added his lieutenant Ian Brossat.
12:10 p.m. – Critics mount against the redesign
A “non-event” reflecting a “power in the process of decomposition”: the government reshuffle on Monday was greeted by a barrage from the side of La France insoumise while the RN accused Emmanuel Macron of ignoring “once again” the legislative results. Many LFI executives fired sharp arrows on Twitter, comparing the executive to a titanic in which “few volunteers” had wanted to embark, according to the expression of the deputy Manuel Bompard. His colleague from Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain saw in the reshuffle the reflection of a “macronie at a standstill”. “Nothing new under the gray skies of the government. (…) A little game of musical chairs, rare new profiles obviously acquired by old neoliberal recipes, ”she tweeted, also attributing the ousting of Damien Abad, under investigation for attempted rape, to “feminist pressure”. Also referring to the dismissal of the Minister of Solidarity, the leader of the Insoumis in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, welcomed the end of an “aberration”, ensuring that the former minister “would never have had to be appointed” to the government.
11:55 a.m. – Olivier Becht, close to Riester, in Foreign Trade
Close to Franck Riester, the deputy of Haut-Rhin Olivier Becht, appointed at 46 years old Minister Delegate in charge of Foreign Trade, had founded during the last term of office a tenth political group in the Assembly, Agir ensemble, ally of the majority. This magistrate by profession then explained that he wanted to “support the action of the President of the Republic” and be a “3rd pillar of the majority” with LREM and MoDem. Unknown to the general public, this enarque from the same class as Emmanuel Macron studied at the PS in Alsace. But he quickly took his independence and was elected at the age of 31 mayor of Rixheim, of which he remained the city councilor until his entry into the Palais-Bourbon in 2017.
11:48 a.m. – Marine Le Pen castigates the ministerial reshuffle
For Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron “thus once again ignores the verdict of the ballot box and the will of the French people for another policy”. “By a simple press release, Emmanuel Macron announces the new government. Those who failed are all reappointed”, criticized the leader of the RN deputies on Twitter after the official announcement of the cabinet reshuffle on Monday morning.
By a simple press release, Emmanuel Macron announces the new government. Those who failed are all reappointed. The President of the Republic is thus once again ignoring the verdict of the ballot box and the desire of the French people for another policy.
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) July 4, 2022
11:42 a.m. – Sandrine Rousseau attacks Christophe Béchu
Before the formalization of the reshuffle, Sandrine Rousseau castigated the appointment of Christophe Béchu, ex-mayor-of Angers, to the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “One thing is already certain: never met Christophe Béchu on the slightest environmental struggle,” said MP Nupes-EELV. Christophe Béchu, an ex-LR macron-compatible, at the Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu, former Republican who has approached LREM since 2017 and ephemeral Minister in charge of Territorial Communities, succeeds Amélie de Montchalin at the Ministry of Ecological Transition on Monday . Mayor of Angers since 2014, re-elected in the first round in 2020, he only held the post of Minister Delegate in charge of Local Authorities for a few weeks. He was then under the supervision of Amélie de Montchalin who had to give up her post after her defeat in the legislative elections.
One thing is already certain: never crossed @ChristopheBechu on the slightest environmental struggle.
— Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) July 4, 2022
11:40 a.m. – Caroline Cayeux, experienced right-wing mayor, to local authorities
Caroline Cayeux, appointed Minister Delegate for Local Authorities on Monday, is an energetic septuagenarian, representative according to her words of the “social right”, who had recently called for a trans-partisan rally around Emmanuel Macron. She has experience in her portfolio, having been at the head for 3 years of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), a public establishment intended to ensure coordination between the State and local authorities. Mayor of Beauvais since 2001, she has chaired Villes de France since 2014, an association that brings together localities with 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants and is also a member of the board of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
11:38 a.m. – Sarah El Haïry, a defender of secularism renewed to the youth
Sarah El Haïry, 33, returns to the State Secretariat for Youth, a position she already held from July 2020 to last May. She is a staunch defender of secularism and actively promotes universal national service (UNS), which is now part of the title of her portfolio. She is now Secretary of State in charge of Youth and Universal National Service, and is attached to two ministries: the Armed Forces and National Education.