What details the roadmap of his new team? Prime Minister Michel Barnier will be the guest of the 8pm news on France 2, Sunday, September 22. The Prime Minister revealed the list of 39 members of his government the day before. Follow our live broadcast.
The opposition is criticizing the “fragile” team of the Prime Minister, who is already threatened with censure. The opposition is still furious after the presentation of the Barnier government, which almost exclusively includes representatives of the centre and the right. “Michel Barnier’s government is a fragile government”believes the former President of the Republic François Hollande on France Bleu Limousin. The PS deputy of Corrèze sees it “a team that already seems rickety”, “heavy” but without “heavyweight’and considers that“it’s necessary [le] censor”with a socialist motion.
A team almost exclusively in the center and on the right. The government unveiled by the LR Prime Minister gives pride of place to the presidential party Renaissance, with eight ministers and five deputy ministers out of 39 members, and to its allies (two MoDem ministers, one Horizons). After having affirmed that they would not participate in a government with the presidential camp, the LR finally make up the second force of this government with five ministers and five deputy ministers. The left has only one representative: Didier Migaud, former socialist deputy who became president of the Court of Auditors then of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life, and now Minister of Justice.
Names that remain, and unexpected ones. Michel Barnier has kept some members of the previous government in their posts (such as Rachida Dati in Culture and Heritage), but most have changed portfolios in the process (such as Catherine Vautrin who became Minister for Partnership with the Territories and Decentralization, or Jean-Noël Barrot who was promoted to Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs). On the other hand, others are more unexpected: Anne Genetet, the new Minister of National Education, “doesn’t know much, either directly or indirectly, about school and the education system”according to the general secretary of the SE-Unsa union. This is also the case for Bruno Retailleau, head of the LR senators and fervent opponent of Emmanuel Macron, finally appointed Minister of the Interior.