A former taxi driver. Several children of cleaning ladies. Descendants of immigrant families. On paper, the Castex government is piling up popular profiles. "There was no question of having technocrats in blue suits again," says an intimate of the president, well aware of the disconnected trial from which the macronie suffers.
During the handover, the promoted are not asked to shine the spotlight on their family origins. Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti paid tribute to "his mother who left his country of origin (Editor's note: Italy) to flee misery and arrive in this great country".
The Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities, Elisabeth Moreno, greeted her parents, "a worker and a cleaning lady", who arrived in France when she was six years old. "I don't come from this world," launched this native of Cape Verde, who has since become the manager of a computer giant. Nothing predestined me to be here before you to serve the French Republic. "
It was the head of government who set the tone on the day he took office. "When you are like me, the son of a teacher from the department of Gers, from the Republican school, we do not often offer you such functions," he said on TF1, omitting to remind that his grandfather Marc Castex, a dealer in agricultural equipment, was a senator from 1980 to 1989. An atypical character: according to the biography published on the Senate website, this elected Gersois stood out by "never speaking in session public for the duration of his mandate ”.
And what about the meritocratic journey of Alain Griset? This steelworker son, who became a taxi driver at 21, inherits the portfolio of small and medium-sized businesses. The government's new "Ms. Banlieue" is not to be outdone. The former member for Trappes (Yvelines), Nadia Hai, grew up in the Merisiers district of this dormitory town, in a family of four children…
"The summit of the state is occupied by a nucleus of enarchs"
Do these figures embody the "new path" promised by Emmanuel Macron? On the left, we denounce a gross communication operation. “For a few happy journeys, how many unhappy journeys, squeak the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure. How would the daily life of cleaning women change because the Minister of the Interior has a cleaning lady? A reference to Gérald Darmanin, who never misses an opportunity to recall his family tree. Before the senators, Wednesday, the "first cop of France" also invoked the figure of his Algerian grandfather "who prayed to Allah and wore the uniform of the Republic". Gérald Darmanin reminded, in passing, that his middle name is "Moussa". "If we are happy to have immigrant origins, then we must be consistent in regularizing undocumented migrants and freeing children who are in detention centers", tackles the leader of the Greens, Julien Bayou.
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Place Beauvau, the winner of the municipal elections in Tourcoing (North) will now coexist with the media Marlène Schiappa, responsible for Citizenship. "These are two children of immigrants, two Republican ascents, not technicians above ground," said a relative of the Minister Delegate. Do not throw any more! "There is clearly a desire on the part of the executive to resolve the break between the mass of the French and their leaders," comments Bernard Poignant, former PS mayor of Quimper and former adviser to François Hollande. But this effort does not erase the fact that the summit of the state is occupied by a nucleus of enarques: the president, his secretary general of the Elysée, his head of the diplomatic cell, but also the Prime Minister and his director of cabinet! "