The essential :
- The first Borne government is to be presented in the afternoon, after several days of consultations led by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. The council of ministers, normally scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed to Monday.
- Elisabeth Borne also made her very first trip since joining Matignon in Les Mureaux, for a visit on the theme of equal opportunities and the emancipation of young girls. During this trip, she said she wanted to “take the necessary time” to compose her government.
- On the left, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) detailed each of the 650 measures of the common base for the legislative elections.
2:37 p.m. – Édouard Philippe: “I haven’t been offered anything, and that suits me very well”
The new government of Elisabeth Borne Borne will be unveiled in the coming hours, and the names are flying. Cited as one of the future ministers of this second Macron five-year term, Édouard Philippe denied the rumor in a subject of the program Further investigationbroadcast on France 2 this Thursday, May 19, as reported Le Figaro . “I’m pretty good where I am. I don’t really want to get out of what I’m trying to build. I haven’t been offered anything, and it suits me very well”, a- he revealed while ensuring not to be “offended”.
11:50 a.m. – What should the Borne government look like?
While Elisabeth Borne will unveil her government on Friday afternoon, several names are already circulating to obtain or keep a ministry, decrypts BFMTV. Several members of the Castex government should keep their post or change ministry. This is the case of Gérald Darmanin and Bruno Le Maire, who should stay at Place Beauvau and Bercy according to our colleagues. Gabriel Attal, Olivier Dussopt, Sébastien Lecornu, Clément Beaune and Marc Fesneau are on track to remain in government while Olivia Grégoire would become the new government spokesperson.
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Regarding the arrivals, the withdrawal of Damien Abad from the LR group would be linked to the announcement of the government of Elisabeth Borne, of which he should be a part. The mayor of Beauvais and former senator LR Caroline Cayeux, and the culture and communication adviser of the Élysée, Rima Abdul Malak, are also approached to integrate it.
10:15 a.m. – La Nupes details its common program
The left united under the banner of Nupes detailed, this Thursday, its common program for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. With among the key measures the minimum wage at 1,500 euros, retirement at 60, the blocking of the price of basic necessities, the restoration of a wealth tax, the abolition of the reform of the baccalaureate or even the objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030. This program is made up of 8 major chapters and 650 measures.
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9:40 a.m. – Macron “prepares France” for Mélenchon, according to Zemmour
Éric Zemmour, who gathered 7.07% of the votes in the presidential election, believes that Emmanuel Macron “prepares France” for the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon and again criticizes his rival Marine Le Pen, who in his eyes embodies ” socialism”. “Emmanuel Macron is preparing the France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They are both for the advent of this new people+ creolized”, says in an interview with Figaro the former far-right contender for the Elysée, who was a columnist in this newspaper. “Only, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to give birth to it through revolution when Emmanuel Macron wants to engender it through a wait-and-see attitude and demographic fatalism. There is a difference in chronology, but not in ideology”, believes Éric Zemmour.
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09:25 – Manuel Bompard criticizes a late reshuffle
While the names of the new ministers will be known this Friday afternoon, five days after the appointment of Elisabeth Borne to Matignon, Manuel Bompard, the former campaign manager of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, makes fun of the “raft of the Medusa “, on BFMTV. He also called the appointment of Elisabeth Borne a “choice of social abuse”.
09:10 – No environmentalist will enter the government
Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV, assured France Info that no member of the ecologists would appear in the government of Elisabeth Borne. “There will be no members of his party among the ministers appointed this afternoon.” And, in any case, “any Minister of Ecology would be condemned to figuration because this government is only the continuity of climate inaction”, insisted Julien Bayou.
08:55 – “The government casting does not matter”, says Olivier Faure
“This casting does not matter, the majority advance completely masked”, estimated, about the future government, Olivier Faure, on Europe 1. “We know nothing of the projects of Emmanuel Macron”, assures the first secretary of the PS, in despite the program that Macron had presented to run for re-election. “We only know for retirement”, he assures on Europe 1.
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8:40 a.m. – “We take the necessary time” to form the new government
During a trip to Les Mureaux, Elisabeth Borne took the time to compose her next government. “We take the necessary time, because we want the right team to set up the project of the President of the Republic”, she launched. “Don’t get impatient,” she also added.
8:30 a.m. – First government for a new five-year term
After several days of consultations, the brand new Borne government is to be announced in the afternoon.