After the appointment of the new French government, Emmanuel Macron received the majority parliamentarians at the Élysée on Monday evening behind closed doors to provide after-sales service for a reshuffle which sacrificed the left wing of the Macronists. And he will speak this January 16 in the evening during a press conference. An exercise that he has rarely practiced since his first election in 2017 – apart from the presidential campaign, the last dates back to 2019 – and which should allow him to explain to the French the reasons for his choices.
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A reshuffle for what? This is the question that Emmanuel Macron will especially have to answer this January 16 evening. He will be facing the journalists, but in fact facing the French, because it is them that the president wants to address. The choice of a time at the beginning of the evening should allow it to obtain a greater audience than in the middle of the afternoon as during other press conferences.
He will have to set this famous course that many have been seeking since the 2022 re-election: display priorities, say how he counts. rearm » France as he announced during his wishes on December 31. This evening, the Élysée promises “ advertisement “.
Find the magic recipe
Emmanuel Macron will also have to give the keys to understanding the choices of a reshuffle which saw Rachida Dati enter the government, the Sarkozy “sniper” appointed to the Ministry of Culture under the authority of Gabriel Attal crowned with the title of more young Prime Minister in history.
Symbols and an ambition that the Head of State made apparent from the first Council of Ministers of the year by asking members of the government to be “ revolutionaries » and not “ managers “. Revolutionthat was the title of his campaign book in 2017 when he was on the rise, as if he wanted to find the magic recipe…
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