After the consultation period, the trial by fire. Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne are preparing to reshuffle the government, a tightrope walker exercise to take into account the new balances in the Assembly. The Prime Minister will announce the composition of the new government at the start of the week, franceinfo learned on Friday July 1 from concordant sources. It will potentially take place on Monday and will be followed by a Council of Ministers in the process, almost three weeks after the last chaired by Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live.
“This reshuffle will not change the current political situation”. “A reshuffle is not a political stunt, it’s recruitment”assured a government heavyweight to franceinfo, who thinks that “in any case, this reshuffle will not change the current political situation”. The idea of a coalition is therefore buried: the oppositions will remain in the opposition. And the executive is preparing to fight on each text.
Damien Abad “must have time to defend himself”. Prisca Thevenot, Renaissance deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and spokesperson for the presidential movement, estimated on Saturday that the Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, “must have time to be able to defend himself” and there “dedicate fully”. An investigation was opened Tuesday for attempted rape targeting the minister after a complaint was filed.
The appointment of Eric Coquerel as chairman of the finance committee continues to make waves. The journalist Rokhaya Diallo evoked Thursday, without specifying them, of the facts reproached by several women to the deputy La France insoumise, freshly elected at the head of the finance committee of the National Assembly. But the committee against sexual violence of LFI ensures that it has not received “no report”. For his part, Eric Coquerel mentioned “unfounded rumors” in a grandstand at Sunday newspaper.