The Minister of Public Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, congratulated Wednesday, November 13 on the X platform the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, after his appointment by Donald Trump at the head of a ministry of “efficiency government” to “dismantle the government bureaucracy”. The wealthy boss of Tesla, Space X and cut unnecessary spending, and restructure federal agencies,” the president-elect said in a statement.
On to improve the efficiency of public agents.
“The French Elon Musk without electricity”
Elon Musk will head this ministry jointly with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. The 53-year-old entrepreneur threw himself headlong into Donald Trump’s campaign in the last few weeks. Images of the multi-billionaire – Forbes estimates his fortune at more than $300 billion – leaping on stage during a Republican rally in Pennsylvania went around the world.
“We thought that Trumpism in France was limited to the far right. We were wrong. We have G. Kasbarian, the French Elon Musk without electricity,” mocked the head of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure. “A French minister congratulates, in English, Elon Musk on his appointment in the Trump administration. He proudly admits sharing the same objectives of weakening public services. How far will this government go in its humiliation of France “, reacted the France Insoumise (LFI) MP for Val-de-Marne, Clémence Guetté. “Poor French civil servants who have to endure such a minister”, also commented the communist senator from Paris Ian Brossat, while the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain castigated “the alliance of the great destroyers of the public”.
Questioned during the report of the council of ministers, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon put these comments into perspective and denied any “convergence” between Donald Trump and the French government. “There is no overinterpretation to be made, my colleague Guillaume has been extremely mobilized for years on the need to simplify and debureaucratize the French administration. He congratulated his counterpart and that ends there,” he said. -she said.