REDESIGN. Emmanuel Macron would be ready to appoint a new Prime Minister next week, in the event of his re-election this Sunday, April 24. Jean Castex would however remain in place until the legislative elections in the opposite case.
Emmanuel Macron had said: “It will take a jump after the presidential election to give new impetus”. But we did not think that the date given by the outgoing president in an interview given to the Figaro beginning of April was to be taken literally. It is now a certainty in the case of the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, Jean Castex would resign in stride, the week following the presidential election. On France Inter, this April 19, the Prime Minister declared: “Obviously, I am one of those who strongly hope that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, will be re-elected on Sunday, and this is our major subject of mobilization this week. So, after this election, in the days that follow, as tradition dictates, I will present my resignation and that of the government to the President of the Republic. (In the event that Marine Le Pen wins this election, however, Jean Castex affirms that he would remain in office until the legislative elections.)
Among the hypotheses considered for the appointment of a new Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron lets the possibility that it is a female figure resonate (read below). For the rest of the portfolios, Emmanuel Macron is betting on a youth-experience ticket. “Then will come the question of the government, where will be present figures who allow to continue to give a dynamic and where I also want to continue to bring out a new generation”, he had mysteriously dropped at the Figarowithout giving any name.
Be that as it may, if he is re-elected President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron will face a political situation never known since the re-election of Charles de Gaulle in 1965. He will be the first outgoing President, since the General, to having to recompose a government while having retained the parliamentary majority throughout its mandate. Because when François Mitterrand was re-elected in 1988, the socialist head of state was emerging from a period of cohabitation with the right, then in the majority in the National Assembly and therefore forming the government. A similar scenario, but politically opposed, had presented itself to Jacques Chirac in 2002 when he had re-enlisted. But who would accompany Emmanuel Macron in a possible chapter 2 of his presidency?
Who could be the new ministers?
But the question is to know who would surround the candidate if he is elected again? Presumably, a major cleaning should be done in the ministries. If the reflections have certainly already been engaged for some time, for the time being, no trend really emerges on the face that the government would have. If only the heads will change. No more than four or five ministers should, at most, be retained by Emmanuel Macron, according to an indiscretion from an interlocutor of the Head of State reported by The chained Duck. For the names concerned, only bets are open, the tongues having not yet loosened the subject of the negotiations.
If the situation in Ukraine were to become more complicated, it is a safe bet on a renewal of Jean-Yves Le Drian in Foreign Affairs and Florence Parly in the Armed Forces, at least initially. Bruno Le Maire in the Economy, him the pilot of the financial management of the Covid-19 epidemic, Gabriel Attal, brought to the fore by the pandemic, or even Julien Denormandie, whose portfolio of the Agriculture could evolve towards a more prestigious morocco, would also be in the small papers. Denormandie, who was one of the linchpins of the 2017 victory and architect of the 2022 campaign, could be entrusted with the leadership of the government by being appointed Prime Minister.
But the doors of Matignon could also be pushed by Christine Lagarde. The name of the former boss of the IMF, today at the head of the ECB, was slipped by Nicolas Sarkozy to Emmanuel Macron. But the main interested party refuted all desires to leave her current functions. The hypothesis Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labour, is also mentioned. Without more certainty. On the new names side, nothing has filtered. Could Emmanuel Macron draw from those who have recently joined him, such as Manuel Valls, Eric Woerth or Christian Estrosi? Nothing is less sure for these broken of the policy. Emmanuel Macron remained enigmatic during an interview with Figaro on April 7, saying he wanted to choose “choose the one that seems most compatible with what you want to wear at a given time.” And to add: “this will suppose in any case to continue to move forward in overtaking.” A surprise could therefore come out of the hat.
Which ministers could leave the government?
On the departure side, the big sweep envisaged by the applicant for his own succession should force many leading figures to pack their boxes, starting with Jean Castex, therefore, but also Jean-Michel Blanquer, unstoppable from the start. of the mandate of Emmanuel Macron, Minister of National Education who remained in this position the longest under the Fifth Republic. The fates that await other prominent ministers such as Roselyne Bachelot, Frédérique Vidal or Eric Dupond-Moretti seem sealed, except for an unexpected turnaround. As for Gérald Darmanin, Olivier Véran, Amélie de Montchalin or Olivier Dussopt, nothing seems to have been recorded yet.
When will the redesign take place?
In the event of a new victory in the presidential election, the current President of the Republic should appoint his new Prime Minister the day after or two days after the results, before formalizing the government a priori in the middle of the week. If Emmanuel Macron wins the ballot, there would be no waiting week between the announcement of the verdict and the transfer of power. Thus, in 1988, François Mitterrand had been re-elected on Sunday May 8, appointing Michel Rocard Prime Minister on the 10th, the formalization of the government having taken place on May 12 and 13. In 2002, Jacques Chirac came first on May 5, announcing the next day Jean-Pierre Raffarin at Matignon, who had formalized the names of his ministers on the 8th.
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The Castex government
- Prime Minister, Head of Government: Jean Castex
- The ministers
- Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs: Jean-Yves Le Drian
- Minister for Ecological Transition: Barbara Pompili
- Minister of Education, Youth and Sports: Jean-Michel Blanquer
- Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery: Bruno Le Maire
- Minister of Armed Forces and Defence: Florence Parly
- Minister of the Interior: Gérald Darmanin
- Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration: Elisabeth Borne
- Overseas Minister: Sébastien Lecornu
- Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals: Eric Dupond-Moretti
- Minister of Cohesion and Territories: Jacqueline Gourault
- Minister of Culture: Roselyne Bachelot
- Minister of Health and Solidarity: Olivier Véran
- Minister of the Sea: Annick Girardin
- Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Frédérique Vidal
- Minister of Agriculture and Food: Julien Denormandie
- Minister of Civil Service and Public Transformation: Amélie de Montchalin
- The delegate ministers
- Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament: Marc Fesneau
- Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Rights and Equal Opportunities: Elisabeth Moreno
- Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness: Frank Riester
- Minister Delegate for Housing: Emmanuelle Wargon
- Minister Delegate for Transport: Jean-Baptiste Djebbari
- Minister Delegate for Public Accounts: Olivier Dussopt
- Minister Delegate for Industry: Agnès Panier Runacher
- Minister Delegate for SMEs: Alain Griset
- Minister Delegate for Sports: Roxana Maracineanu
- Minister Delegate for Memory and Veterans Affairs: Geneviève Darrieussecq
- Minister Delegate for Citizenship: Marlène Schiappa
- Minister Delegate for Integration: Brigitte Klinkert
- Minister Delegate in charge of the City: Nadia Hai
- Minister Delegate for Autonomy: Brigitte Bourguignon
- Secretaries of State
- Secretary of State, government spokesperson: Gabriel Attal
- Sophie Cluzelin charge of Persons with Disabilities, to the Prime Minister
- With the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoynein charge of Tourism, French nationals abroad and the Francophonie
- With the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Clement Beaunein charge of European Affairs
- With the Minister of Ecological Transition, Berangere Abbain charge of Biodiversity;
- With the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, Ms. Nathalie Elimasin charge of Priority Education, Ms. Sarah El Hairyin charge of Youth and Engagement
- With the Minister of Economy and Finance, Cedric Oin charge of Digital Transition and Electronic Communications
- With the Minister of Economy and Finance, Olivia Gregoirein charge of Social, Solidarity and Responsible Economy
- With the Minister of Labor and Employment, Lhave Pietraszewskiin charge of Pensions and Occupational Health
- With the Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Joel Giraudin charge of Rurality
- With the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Adrien Taquetin charge of Children and Families.