The composition of the new government reveals the “very weak human resources on the side of Macronie”estimated Sébastien Chenu, deputy National Rally (RN), Monday July 4 on franceinfo.
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For the Vice-President of the National Assembly, “this government is still a lot of techno”that’s to say “people who probably have technical skills but who are not politicians”. He notably cited the example of François Braun, an emergency doctor who became Minister of Health in replacement of Brigitte Bourguignon. “We have seen the difficulty that technocrats often had in putting on a minister’s costume”he pointed out.
Sébastien Chenu also welcomed the departure of Olivier Véran from the State Secretariat in charge of Relations with Parliament. For him it is “a good thing”. “We asked for it, I don’t know if we were heard”he added. “He had indicated that insubordinate France and the National Rally were not in the Republican arc, placing himself in total contradiction with the words of the President of the Republic, which obviously made him a Minister of Relations with the parliament a little lame”, he recalled. Olivier Véran had no “not want” to have relationships “with us”the deputies, he assures.
Now that he is government spokesperson, Olivier Véran “go and sell the government soup every day”, snapped Sébastien Chenu. He also returned to his previous functions as Minister of Health. Olivier Veran “was a very contested minister, he made quite questionable decisions that we continue to contest”. During the presidential campaign, the RN candidate, Marine Le Pen, had promised the reinstatement of caregivers suspended due to their non-vaccination against Covid-19.
Sébastien Chenu also reacted to the departure of Damien Abad’s government, under investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office for attempted rape. For him, the “position” of the Minister of Solidarity “became untenable”. “The government has been very short-sighted” by appointing him to this position. However, he recalled his attachment to “the presumption of innocence” who “must not be replaced in our country by the presumption of guilt”.