French President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his government on Thursday, following protests against pension reform and riots sparked by the death of a teenager at the hands of police, but kept Prime Minister Élisabeth in office. Terminal.
In a statement, the Eliseu has presented the new composition of the executive, in which those responsible for the most political positions do not change, nor does the Prime Minister, who celebrates her first Council of Ministers this Friday with the new cast.
The main changes are that of the head of Education, in which the historian of Senegalese origin Pap Ndiaye will be replaced by the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal -a personal friend of Macron at just 34 years old-, and that of the Minister of Health, François Braun, replaced by Aurélien Rousseau, 47, who was Borne’s chief of staff.
Attal, who was government spokesman (2020-2022) and is one of Macron’s most trusted men, will now occupy the ministry that manages the largest executive budget and with the largest number of officials (1.2 million).
Rousseau, a communist militant in his youth, has a long career as a senior civil servant and training at the prestigious National School of Administration (ENA).
Between 2020 and 2022, he was at the forefront of the fight against the covid-19 pandemic, as director of the regional health agency for the Paris region.
For almost two years (2015-2017) he worked in the offices of the socialist prime ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve and since May 2022 he has been the Borne chief of staff, whom Macron finally confirmed in office, despite tensions between the last months.
Among the new faces of the executive are also the deputy Thomas Cazenave, in the Public Accounts portfolio, and the mayor of Dunkerque, Patrice Vergriete, in Housing, in addition to the deputy Aurore Bergé in Solidarity.
Two other women change positions: Sarah El Hairy, who ceases to be Secretary of State for Youth and moves on to Biodiversity, and Bérangère Couillard, who was Secretary of State for Ecology and will become Minister of Equality.
Author of a media success for having recently posed for Playboy magazine and also allegedly implicated in a case of embezzlement, Marlène Schiappa leaves the Government, where she was Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy.
Once the new cabinet is presented, Macron must address the French in a format yet to be defined until next Sunday, when he begins a week-long trip to Oceania.
In the statement, he must take stock of the 100 days of action since the promulgation of the controversial Social Security reform, which will progressively postpone the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years, and which generated extensive social protests between January and May.
Violent demonstrations followed, sparked by the death of a 17-year-old teenager, Nahel, shot by police on June 27 in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris, at a traffic checkpoint from which he fled.
The following nights, riots broke out in several French cities, in which buildings, cars, public facilities and police stations were set on fire, leading to the arrest of hundreds of people, most of them adolescents and young people, and leaving behind dozens of police officers and protesters. injured. .
Macron is also expected to present a political line for the coming months, in a political context that continues to be marked by not having an absolute majority in the National Assembly to adopt his legislative projects and needing the support of parties that are not part of it. his government
Source: TSF
