According to several interlocutors interviewed, Marlène Schiappa, very weakened by the scandal of the Marianne fund, has little chance of saving her post as Secretary of State.
“You must not exaggerate“, the report of the commission of inquiry on the Marianne fund of the Senate, which was to allow after the assassination of Samuel Paty to finance the fight against separatism, “not going to kick off the reshuffle“, jokes a government adviser. However, in the corridors of the ministries, the bets are starting again: who will still be in government by the summer?
>> EDITORIAL. After the “fiasco” of the Marianne Fund, Marlène Schiappa more than ever on the list of ministers in the hot seat
After the barely overcome pension conflict, Emmanuel Macron found himself faced with the conflagration of the suburbs and several politically complex issues. At the heart of the critics, these last hours: the attitude of Marlène Schiappa, at the time Minister Delegate for Citizenship and today Secretary of State in charge of the Solidarity Economy and Associative Life.
She faces an extremely severe conclusion from the Senate after the commission of inquiry into the Marianne fund. Thus, according to this power advisor above, as for all those we have contacted, it is impossible for Marlène Schiappa to stay, before specifying that she “will wait for the general tour” to leave the government of Elisabeth Borne.
Admittedly, she is an early faithful of the president, a lieutenant who was not afraid to go to the front in difficult times, such as the Benalla affair or the “yellow vests”. Except that, now, not only is she criticized by the opposition, which is calling for her resignation, but also in her camp: if he knows the loyalty of his minister, “he also knows his excesses“, squeaks a close friend of the president.
A simple technical overhaul
And this reshuffle is cause for discussion: from Monday July 10, predict the most daring, since Tuesday and Wednesday, the president is not in Paris. He will be at the NATO summit in Vilnius. “Emmanuel Macron still needs to be there” Otherwise, “it would give the feeling that he is not interested“, observes a ministerial source.
But all our interlocutors agree: it will be a technical overhaul. Understand: a few entries, a few exits to mark the end of the “100 days” and strengthen the team to continue. But “certainly not“to learn the lessons of the explosion of the suburbs after the death of Nahel, insists a collaborator of the president who recognizes, finally, that this reorganization was planned well before. The names of Pap Ndiaye, François Braun, of the Minister of Solidarities Jean- Christophe Combes or Olivier Klein, in charge of the City, are mentioned.