The absence of a portfolio dedicated to people with disabilities in the new government had been denounced by associations. A delegate minister will be appointed, France Inter has learned.
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A minister delegate for people with disabilities will be appointed on Wednesday afternoon, September 25, France Inter learned from Matignon. A minister delegate for the Armed Forces and Veterans is also to be appointed.
Since the announcement of the composition of the government on Saturday, many associations have been outraged by the absence of Disability in the titles of ministries and present in the previous government in the form of a State Secretariat. On X, the Collectif Handicaps, which brings together 54 associations, had thus written: “13 days ago, Emmanuel Macron welcomed the momentum created by the Paralympic Games. Today, the Barnier Government has no ministry dedicated to disability… but a titanic ministry without a secretariat of state. We were told about a legacy of the Games. It will have been quickly buried.”
Matignon had defended itself from having forgotten this portfolio, taken over by the ministry of Paul Christophe, appointed Minister of Solidarity and Autonomy. France Inter learned from Matignon that a delegate minister will therefore be appointed on Wednesday afternoon.
A Minister Delegate for the Armed Forces and Veterans will also be appointed. During the Attal government, Patricia Mirallès was Secretary of State for Veterans and Remembrance, working for the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, who was reappointed in the Barnier government.