The Borne 1 government was announced on Friday afternoon. After three weeks of waiting, it is still the same heavyweights of the outgoing government who form the backbone of the new team. Emmanuel Macron enters his second five-year term without upheavals.
For the revival, it is not won. With in addition to Elisabeth Borne, 13 renewed ministers, those that everyone knows starting with Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin, the two heavyweights from the right who climb to the top of the government hierarchy, the signal of this ” new mandate for a new president as he said Emmanuel Macron during his inaugurationis rather that of continuity than of rupture, analysis Valerie Gaspolitical service.
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Especially since among the entrants, there are also macronists from the start. Stanislas Guérini, Yaël Braun Pivet, or the cultural adviser of the Elysée, Rima Abdul Malak… Emmanuel Macron thought long and hard to decide on his surrounded above all by those who had proven themselves by his side.
Of course there is a war prize, the president of the group Les Républicains in the Assembly Damien Abad, and Catherine Colonnaa new right-wing foreign minister to replace Jean-Yves Le Drian, but not enough to ruffle.
Damien Abad, the only prize of war
It constitutes the main political war prize of President Macron: the deputy LR Damien Abad, 42, enters the government. The one who was the leader of the elected “Les Républicains” in the National Assembly takes the head of the Ministry of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, himself suffering from a disability.
Coming from the center, rallied to the right, Damien Abad was courted by Emmanuel Macron. The deputy had been received discreetly at the Elysee Palace a few weeks ago, recalls Anthony Lattier of the political service. To the point that his political family summoned him to get out of the ambiguity, which he ended up doing this Thursday by withdrawing from his party.
24 hours later, he was appointed to the government, which it would have been difficult to imagine a few months ago as the leader of the LR deputies in the Assembly did not spare his blows against Emmanuel Macron and his government for two and a half years. But he also sought to embody a “constructive” opposition, assuming to support certain texts, particularly during the health crisis. If Damien Abad is no longer comfortable with his party, it is because he accuses of “compromise with the far right”.
For Emmanuel Macron, this is one more war prize on the right. But it’s only one take, a sign that he may soon be done siphoning off the right. For the Les Républicains party, even if Damien Abad is not well known, it’s a new blow, one more… after a catastrophic presidential election and before legislative elections which promise to be difficult.
except with Pap Ndiaye, the new Minister of National Education, the exact opposite of Jean-Michel Blanquer, the one who produces the “wow” effect announced for this government. A symbol minister, unexpected, which Emmanuel Macron has chosen to make his new standard.