Gabriel Attal’s government is now complete. Twenty-eight days after the first round of appointments, the team was completed, Thursday February 8, by 20 ministers, delegate ministers and secretaries of state. The new team arouses criticism among the oppositions. “It’s no longer a redesign, it’s a form of haunted house. You open each door, one after the other, and it’s a bit like a house of horrors,” Manon Aubry said on franceinfo on Friday. , head of the France Insoumise (LFI) list in the European elections. “We added a few executioners, but the sentence remains the same: destruction of public services” And “hunt for the poor”, she added. Follow our live stream.
The transfer of powers to Education at 10 a.m. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, very weakened by diverse controversies, retains the portfolio of Sports and the Paris Games, but is replaced at National Education by the former Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet. The transfer of power takes place Friday at 10 a.m. at the Ministry of National Education.
The “waltz of ministers” to Education is “worrying”. “It’s not a relief, it’s an eternal starting again”, exasperated Friday, at the microphone of France Inter, Elisabeth Allain Moreno, general secretary of the teachers’ union SE-Unsa, the day after the appointment of Nicole Belloubet to the Ministry of National Education. This “waltz of ministers worries more and more”she says.
Political balances maintained. This second episode of the much-anticipated reshuffle was marked by the thunderous exit of Emmanuel Macron’s historic ally, François Bayrou. The MoDem nevertheless retains four representatives within the executive. This equal team (18 women, 17 men) maintains the pre-existing political balances, with still an overwhelming majority of positions devolved to the presidential Renaissance party and the rest to its allies, including four MoDem, two Horizons and a radical left.
The appointment of Guillaume Kasbarian to Housing contested. Deputy Renaissance brought a law that toughens penalties against squatters. The text, criticized for its firmness towards precarious people who no longer pay their rent, was adopted in June 2023 by Parliament. His appointment was therefore immediately contested by part of the housing sector. “A real provocation”according to Pascal Brice, president of the federation of solidarity actors.