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The government reshuffle could be announced as early as Monday, July 4. Between beaten ministers to be replaced and positions to be allocated, what are the major issues in this difficult political equation?
Forming a government or reshuffling it is always a headache. Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, must already deal with several departures: Amélie de Montchalin, Brigitte Bourguignon, as well as the Secretary of State Justine Benin, who left the government after their defeats in the legislative elections. Yaël Braun-Pivet, short-lived overseas minister, was elected president of the National Assembly.
In the judicial chapter, two outgoing are possible. First of all, Damien Abad, who is the subject of an investigation opened by the Public Prosecutor’s Office for attempted rape. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is the target of several rape complaints, the facts of which date back to the time when she practiced her profession as a gynecologist. If the casting is complex to renew, the majority believes that this is not the essential. “I think that what matters to the French, (…) it is not even necessarily knowing who, it is knowing that we have, at some point, a collective that is formed, that is permanently installed“, declared Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, on LCI, Sunday July 3.