"Great emotion after a very intense start to the week," sums up a new head of government. Aligned at a good distance in the gardens of the Elysee, the 43 members of the Castex government posed this Wednesday for the traditional "family photo" around the president. A team finally complete after the appointment, Sunday evening, of eleven Secretaries of State. The meeting took place at the end of the Council of Ministers which, for the six incoming State Secretaries, had the particularity of being the first… and the last before the ministerial recess.
Arrived at the height of summer, these six newcomers had a somewhat rushed introduction. "Sports", sums up the MoDem MP Nathalie Elimas who learned Sunday evening on television that she was appointed to priority education while she expected to join the Ministry of Social Affairs. “It started very quickly right away,” she continues. There is an eight-person cabinet to set up, meetings that follow one another, reports to read. "
Warned by Emmanuel Macron in person that he would be appointed to Rurality on Sunday noon, the LREM deputy for Hautes-Alpes Joël Giraud almost immediately jumped on a TGV to Paris from Italy, putting the security services in turmoil. "We must complete in a week what the ministers did in a month, summarizes the elected Alpine. It's a bit hot because at the end of the week, there is no one left in the ministries. "
Secretary of State for Biodiversity, the LREM deputy of Haute-Marne, Bérangère Abba, also recognizes that "it started very strongly" with, from Monday, an ecological defense council followed by a trip with Barbara Pompili and Jean Castex . In Matignon, we temper. “Ministers also have very little time to build their teams. And then, the summer will also be an opportunity for them to go on the ground as requested by the Prime Minister. "
This is what the graduates have already programmed, many of whom have seen their vacations turned upside down. In charge of European Affairs, Clément Beaune does not yet know what his destination will be. "It will be a study holiday in Europe, with perhaps travel", specifies his entourage. Joël Giraud will go three weeks to repair his mother's old house in Bourbonnais (Allier), "but it will be interspersed with official visits near Vichy and perhaps in Puy-de-Dôme and Corrèze".
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As for Nathalie Elimas, she had to halve her family vacations in Corsica. "I'll go a fortnight, but with the reports in one hand and the phone in the other," she warns. Because the time remaining until the end of the five-year term is short and there are many projects. "
