Since the appointment of Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister on Tuesday, the announcement of the composition of the new government has been awaited. No deadline is given to it, but is it within the timeframe of the Fifth Republic?
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While Gabriel Attal was officially appointed Prime Minister on Tuesday January 9, the composition of his government is not yet known. Who will stay? Who will accept, or not, a new wallet? Are Gabriel Attal and Emmanuel Macron struggling to find candidates? And is this wait for the details of the government longer than for the previous reshuffles of the Fifth Republic?
In the 43 previous governments, prime ministers often waited 24 hours after their appointment to detail the composition of their team. 19 of them announced it the next day. Five of them even did so on the day of their appointment. Note that the exact average wait between the appointment of a Prime Minister and the announcement of the composition of his government is 1.6 days since the start of the Fifth Republic.
Since Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term in 2017, the waiting time between the appointment of the Prime Minister and the announcement of his government has been a little longer: three days on average. The “Master of Clocks” also stood out during his re-election in 2022 by taking almost a month to appoint Elisabeth Borne to succeed Jean Castex.
Eight days for the second Pompidou government
Among the records, in 1962, Georges Pompidou waited eight days before detailing the composition of his second government. Charles de Gaulle reappointed him as Prime Minister on November 28, the same day of his resignation. The government team is detailed on December 6 and published in Official newspaper on December 7, 1962.
In 1988, following the legislative elections, Michel Rocard resigned from his first government. François Mitterrand reappointed him to his post immediately, on June 22. This time, the socialist leaves himself five days before detailing the composition of his government, in a context of relative majority in the National Assembly.