One day, it is the defender of the rights Claire Hédon who takes lightning.
Her proposal to experiment with areas without identity checks is unanimously opposed.
"It's unbearable, what message are we sending to elected officials, police officers and young people?
», Chokes Karl Olive, the mayor of Poissy (Yvelines) where the police were violently attacked last weekend.
Another day, it was the Minister of Research Frédérique Vidal who started a controversy after having ordered an investigation into "Islamo-leftism" at the university.
His opponents are calling for his resignation in the name of the independence of academic work.
These two personalities share one thing in common: propelled by Emmanuel Macron, they were reframed this week… by Emmanuel Macron.
Which sent messages of disapproval through his entourage.
It did not take less to relaunch the debate on HRD Macron: talent scout or used to casting errors?
Since 2017, the president has in any case made a bet as daring as it is risky: to change the pool of senior officials.
He wants to "rejuvenate, renew and encourage diversity" in key positions, sums up at the Elysee.
Where we underline a statistic: “In 2017, 24 women were prefects.
They are now 40. “By the way, the president takes the opportunity to play on a string that is dear to him: the effect of surprise… Just like Claire Hédon, the first woman defender of rights.
Appointed last July for a non-revocable six-year term, she did not come from politics but from journalism and the associative world (ATD Quart-monde).
During her examination of passage before the parliament, she had brandished this originality as an asset: "The notoriety of the Defender of Rights has progressed well," she admitted about her predecessor Jacques Toubon.
But it is not yet sufficient.
I hope that my training as a journalist will allow me to make it progress.
It is capital.
"From this point of view, after what she has just said, it is successful," quips a parliamentarian who had participated in the hearing.
"Emmanuel Macron likes to get out of the usual molds"
Another opposite: as General Controller of places of deprivation of liberty, Emmanuel Macron chose the journalist of the Canard enchaîné Dominique Simonnot.
"Emmanuel Macron likes to get out of the usual molds and promote competence," insists the president of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Assembly Roland Lescure.
Before 2017, the turbulent MPs who had to be neutralized ended up in government.
Emmanuel Macron has changed his approach: he brought out talents that he spotted in parliament such as Amélie de Montchalin or Olivia Grégoire.
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Nevertheless, many novices with little experience in political codes and badly calibrating their messages ended up stumbling.
This is the case for many ministers of civil society including precisely Frédérique Vidal, who served as president of the University Sofia-Antipolis.
Sign that does not deceive: more than fifteen ministers have resigned since 2017, some with a bang like the ecologist Nicolas Hulot.
The turnover is striking: no less than 69 ministers have been appointed over the past three years.
A record.
"We often ignore it, but the power of appointments is one of the strongest powers of a president, he spends a large part of his time there," relates François Hollande's former communications advisor to the Elysee Gaspard Gantzer.
And his teams too, who receive many potential candidates.
"La Poste, EDF, Météo France, the Court of Auditors, the SNCF, the RATP ... Not a week without the Head of State deciding in favor of a suitor - this Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron proposed the renewal by Jean-François Delfraissy, the famous boss of the scientific council, at the head of the National Consultative Ethics Committee.
For the nominations to be effective, candidates must then pass a grand oral before a committee in the Senate and the Assembly, whose members vote.
A more formal exercise than anything else: never a candidate pushed by the Elysee is challenged.
