Thirty ministers, in addition to a prime minister and a spokesperson. Even before the appointment of Secretaries of State in the coming days, the new government announced on Tuesday is bloated. It is the one with the most ministers since the last government of Jean-Marc Ayrault, between 2012 and 2014 (37 ministers, excluding secretaries of state). The new team also turns out to be older, more feminine and more right than the previous one. Le Figaro takes stock.
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● Older
Appointed persons are 50 years old on average: they are three years older than members of the outgoing government. At 73, Jean-Yves Le Drian (Europe and Foreign Affairs) gives up his place as dean to the new Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, a few months older, and already minister under two other presidents (Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy ).
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Propelled government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal remains, at 31, the youngest of the executive. As for Gérald Darmanin, 37, he became the youngest Minister of the Interior of the Fifth Republic. One of his predecessors under the Fourth Republic, a certain François Mitterrand, had also been appointed to Beauvau at 37 years of age - but he was one month younger.
● More feminine
Promise of candidate Macron, parity is still not respected ... But, once is not custom, it is women who benefit. Three women leave the executive (Nicole Belloubet, Muriel Pénicaud, Sibeth Ndiaye), but five integrate it (Barbara Pompili, Roselyne Bachelot, Élisabeth Moreno, Brigitte Klinkert, Nadia Hai, Brigitte Bourguignon).
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Result: the government, hitherto unbalanced with more men than women (20 against 17), now has more women than men (17 against 15). This situation is not unprecedented: women have already found themselves in the majority in a government under Emmanuel Macron, for the first time, from July to September 2019. This could however no longer be the case in the coming days, if the appointment of state secretaries changes the balances.
● More to the right
The political reorientation operated leans to the right. As the Sarkozysts did not fail to note, some 16% of the members of the previous government came from their camp; 24% are now coming from there. Conversely, the ministers from the left are less numerous (they go from 27% to 22%). Four former socialists have indeed left the ranks of the executive: Christophe Castaner, Nicole Belloubet, Didier Guillaume and Sibeth Ndiaye.
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Alongside ex-LR Jean Castex, new prime minister, the head of state prefers to poach on the right, two years before the presidential election. With the promotion of Gérald Darmanin to the Interior, a trusted post par excellence, the progression of Sébastien Lecornu in the hierarchy, and the arrival of the elected “various right” Brigitte Klinkert at the Insertion, Emmanuel Macron strengthens the line center right in the executive.
