Eric Ciotti has an alternative “counter-government” to Emmanuel Macron

Eric Ciotti has set up his “shadow cabinet”. The President of the Republicans unveiled in the JDD, Sunday, May 14, an alternative “counter-government” to Emmanuel Macron to defend the ideas of the party and build a programmatic project, a kind of “ghost cabinet” inspired by Anglo-Saxon practice. “I hope that the programmatic work will be organized around the person who will have been in charge of the theme”explained the leader of the right-wing party.

Under the leadership of LR secretary general Annie Genevard, this team of around thirty “national secretaries” is also part of the effort to rebuild LR, both weakened by its electoral setbacks and having become pivotal thanks to its some 60 deputies who can add to the majority. Two months after the end of the psychodrama of the pension reform, the organization chart mixes all the tendencies of LR. But the leader of the slingers, Aurélien Pradié, sacked from his position as number 2, does not appear there.

A cabinet of 15 women and 17 men

The sovereign pole includes the vice-president of the Ile-de-France region Frédéric Péchenard (Interior), the MEP Nadine Morano (Immigration) and the senator François-Noël Buffet (Justice). At the economic pole, we find the expert Christian Saint-Etienne (Economy and Reindustrialisation), as well as the deputies Véronique Louwagie (Public Accounts), Valérie Bazin-Malgras (Companies) and Isabelle Périgault (Training).

LR’s young guard is also represented with MPs Julien Dive (Agriculture), Antoine Vermorel-Marques (Environment) and Raphaël Schellenberger (Energy). In this quasi-parity counter-cabinet (15 women, 17 men), women’s rights go to Paris councilor Nelly Garnier and culture to the mayor of Taverny Florence Portelli. Deputy Philippe Juvin is in charge of Health and Senator Max Brisson of Education. Finally, questions relating to Foreign Affairs are monitored by Michel Barnier as special adviser to the President.