A few days before Christmas, the ministers are preparing to take charge of the festivities. The opportunity to take stock of the last months of the government and the burning issues that are coming up, such as the start of the school year, promises to be under high tension, between pensions and inflation.
• Olivier Dussopt: unemployment and pensions
Unknown to the general public, the Ministry of Labor had the new unemployment insurance reform adopted, which now correlates the length of compensation the state of the labor market. This former socialist, very close to Martine Aubry, has also spent months trying to support the left of the majority within his Territories of Progress movement, without much impact on the line of government so far.
The Ardèchois, which also leads the immigration text with Gérald Darmanin, now has the heavy burden of defending the extension of the retirement age. A good technician, he will have to convince himself that he is capable of carrying out this reform politically. Only 21% of the French are in favor of postponing the legal retirement age, according to a BFMTV poll.
• Gérald Darmanin: all about immigration
The interior minister suffered a slump after the Champions League final fiasco at the Stade de France in May. Back in the saddle by a relative mea culpa and her sweeping victory in the Tourcoing legislative elections, the minister has in recent months defended the law on law enforcement programming. Approved by the National Assembly, the doubling of the security forces should materialize “within ten years” and the creation of “online complaints” in the coming months.
The tenant of Place Beauvau must now concentrate on the immigration bill. To convince the right, very skeptical of this text, the forty-year-old assures “not to be at all in the massive regularization.”
• Bruno Le Maire: between food inflation and rising energy prices
Heavyweight of the Government, to which intentions for 2027 are attributed, the Minister of Economy has been very present in recent months, between record rises in food prices and discounts at pumps. Le Normand can also boast of having passed the purchasing power law, a few weeks after disappointing legislative elections for the government.
The next few months could swing as inflation should rise further and redemptions at gas stations come to an end. The 15% rise in electricity and gas prices will also be on your table. Craftsmen like bakers and butchers are particularly concerned.
• Gabriel Attal: 49.3 and criticism of Anne Hidalgo
The former government spokesman, now Delegate Minister for Public Accounts, was called last fall to convince the opposition during the “Bercy talks.” The 30-year-old was then on a mission to change the budget discussions with the right and the Nupes. Without much success, while Elisabeth Borne used 49.3 10 times in budget texts.
Without a specific law to bring in the coming weeks, Gabriel Attal, who has harshly criticized Anne Hidalgo in recent weeks, may want to devote himself to advancing his pawns for the municipal elections in the capital.
• Agnès Pannier-Runacher: after renewable energies, focus on nuclear
Accused of a conflict of interest with the oil company Perenco, the minister in charge of the Energy Transition found herself in trouble a few weeks before presenting her bill on the development of wind and photovoltaic energy in France. She can now boast – after the High Authority for Transparency “indicated the absence of a ruling” on her part – of having been able to conduct the debates in the chamber with relative cordiality. If the deputies vote on this text in January, her cabinet hopes to convince the left to support it, a capital support without an absolute majority.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher will now have to convince about another even more complicated bill: that of nuclear energy.
• Olivier Véran: the defense of pensions
Appointed Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament – a position far removed from the Ministry of Health, highly exposed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic – Olivier Véran then took over as spokesman. It is up to him every Wednesday to defend the government in all directions during his press conference.
The minister has raised his voice in recent days against the SNCF, part of whose staff is on strike over Christmas weekend. Instead, he remained more silent about his portfolio as Deputy Minister for Democratic Renewal. Olivier Véran will be particularly exposed at the beginning of the school year and will have to defend the pension reform.
• Éric Dupond-Moretti: a pending judicial reform
The Minister of Justice has been relatively discreet since the beginning of this new five-year term -with the exception of the arms passes with the RN on the murder of Lola or the fate of the Ocean Viking-. Bad news for him: His breathless justice action plan due in early December has been postponed. Faced with the risk of strikes linked to the pension reform, the executive wanted to avoid opening a new front against the magistrates.
Éric Dupond-Moretti should try to pass his bill to strengthen the means of Justice in the first half of 2023. Its general lines should be presented on January 5.
Source: BFM TV
