The new government, announced on the evening of January 11, held its first Council of Ministers this Friday morning at the Élysée Palace, in a “studious” atmosphere, confided the members of the cabinet as they left. President Emmanuel Macron insisted on one word: “work”.
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Echoing the Prime Minister’s statements on Thursday evening, Gabriel Attal stressed the need to take immediate action. The entourage of the Head of State even went further with the presidential desire to “ speed “, of efficiency with this desired government ” tightened ” And ” gathered » to breathe new life into things, particularly on economic issues.
Emmanuel Macron was surrounded by the finance boss, Bruno Le Maire, and the new Minister of Labor and Health, Catherine Vautrin, the former minister of Jacques Chirac who had taken office a little earlier.
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A team that Emmanuel Macron wants as close as possible to him. This Council of Ministers was also organized, something rare, in the green room which adjoins the presidential office.
Emmanuel Macron extended this Council of Ministers with a meeting with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal who will go this afternoon to a college in the Paris region for one of his first trips.
A government still incomplete
And the pace will remain high next week with first a speech by the Head of State planned at the very beginning of the week, Emmanuel Macron announced at the end of last year that he was going to speak to the French. It will then be the test of the general policy speech for Gabriel Attal who will immediately be confronted in the Assembly with a vote of confidence, or a motion of censure promised by the left.
And then the government is not yet complete: secretaries of state must still be appointed, as well as delegate ministers, notably for Transport and Housing. But you will have to be patient since the Élysée and Matignon are allowing around ten days to complete the government casting. Particularly because we will have to negotiate with the allies of the presidential camp, not necessarily satisfied with the turn to the right taken by the government.
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