Emmanuel Macron is used to breaking records. But this one will not remain as the most glorious. With the resignation of Agnès Buzyn, invested candidate of LREM for the municipal ones in Paris to replace Benjamin Griveaux, the President of the Republic does not only lose a minister of weight: he also notes the 17th departure of a member of his government in less than three years in office. Before this quinquennium, no head of state of the Fifth Republic had attended so many departures from his government, so shortly after arriving at the Élysée Palace.
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If some have chosen to go away following political disagreements (Nicolas Hulot) or to satisfy local ambitions (Gérard Collomb in Lyon), many others have been forced to set sail. This is the case of Richard Ferrand and François Bayrou, pushed towards the exit because of legal troubles, but also of François de Rugy, sacrificed on the altar of transparency. Le Figaro looks back on the movements of the last 33 months.
