Final negotiations and verifications, before the big upheaval promised? "You will see, you will have big surprises," promises very close support from Emmanuel Macron. This Sunday evening, the President of the Republic and his new Prime Minister Jean Castex continued to work on the architecture of the new government which will be presented on Monday, with around twenty ministers and deputy ministers appointed. "It is 95% complete, we are awaiting the latest feedback from the HATVP (Editor's note: the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life) ", slips a relative of the head of state. The announcement will take place at midday, from the steps of the Elysée Palace by the Secretary General, Alexis Kohler. The names of the state secretaries will be revealed later, "a priori at the end of the week".
But already on Sunday, some ministers were fixed on their fate. This is particularly the case of Jean-Michel Blanquer, "who emerged very smiling from the Elysée Palace during an interview on Saturday evening," slips a source. But also Gérald Darmanin and Olivier Véran who were received this Sunday evening in Matignon by Castex. The first should inherit from a large social ministry, as rumor has already suggested in recent weeks, with the thorny issue of pensions to manage. The second would be confirmed to Health, but in an enlarged pole. Like Bruno Le Maire in Bercy.
In Justice, however, Nicole Belloubet will not be reappointed, but "the person who will replace her will come like her from the bench," said a macronist strategist. As for the fate of Christophe Castaner, the greatest opacity remains. One thing is almost certain, it is not the sarkozyst Frédéric Péchenard who will succeed him in Beauvau. Even if his name was regularly cited, "he was not approached by the Elysee Palace" swears a relative of the former director of the national police.
Ségolène Royal dreams of herself at the center of the game
And there is another who should not enter government either, Ségolène Royal. Sunday, the former Minister of Ecology was talked about after his remarks made on BFMTV, and even created a sacred imbroglio at the highest summit in the state. "I was called by someone close to the president," she said. Denied in the wake of the Palace, the presidential candidate of 2007 has, according to our information, indeed been solicited. In this case, by a text sent on Saturday noon by Jean-Yves Le Drian, followed by a telephone exchange between the two and during which she assured him that an entry into the government would only "make sense for a more social, more ecological, more democratic politics ”.
“It is not because she speaks to Le Drian that she will enter the government, even if we have a lot of respect for her. And as far as we know, it was not he who was appointed Prime Minister, "sharply dismissed a high ranking macronie, who continued:" Ségolène Royal likes to be in the middle of the game, including when she knows that 'she'll never win the game'. On the other hand, the socialist Valérie Rabault really had a proposal to enter, but she refused.
“A new path” will emerge on July 14
Tonight on his Twitter account, Emmanuel Macron himself gave the meaning of this reshuffle by explaining wanting a government of "mission and unity" to carry its policy which must "adapt to international upheavals and crises". Master of clocks, the president also intends to set this course in the coming days, with a speech before the French which will take place on July 14 and which will be the fruit of the lessons he has learned from all the consultations conducted these last weeks. The format will most likely be that of a television interview, thus reviving a tradition that he had ended when he came to power. “But there, the context is different. On this occasion, he will set the guidelines for the end of the five-year term and the Prime Minister will then specify the implementation in his general policy speech, ”said a person close to the president. In short, Macron decides and Castex executes.
