Guillaume Tabard: “A reshuffle which marks a start that is more sluggish than offensive” Authority, speed and efficiency were to be the key words of a “regenerated” Macronism. The presidential press conference and the Prime Minister's general policy speech were the expression of this.
The reduced table of the Council of Ministers, the symbol, was also a symbol of the shakeup. The wind of youth which had blown through Matignon with the appointment of Gabriel Attal was intended to be a herald of a "regeneration"