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Reshuffle: has a President of the Republic ever taken so long to form a government after his election?

2022-05-19T15:09:22.597Z


THE VERIFICATION – Philippe Bas, LR senator from La Manche and former minister, said on Thursday that “it has never taken so long” to form a government. Is his assertion true?


THE QUESTION

.

Emmanuel Macron continues to play the watch.

The President of the Republic waited three weeks after his re-election to announce the appointment of his new Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.

He intends to further prolong the suspense before revealing the list of his future ministers.

The composition of the new government will not be known before the end of the week.

Guest of the morning of Europe 1 this Thursday, May 19, Senator LR from La Manche and former minister Philippe Bas said that “

it has never taken so long

” to form a government.

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Three weeks is a lot all the same.

I don't think that - apart from perhaps under the Fourth Republic, and again - it has ever taken so long in France

," he said, thus alluding to the length of time between the election of the president of the Republic and the entry into office of its new government.

Philippe Bas then added that when he was Jacques Chirac's former secretary general, "

there were leading political figures who were essential for the formation of the government

".

"

Maybe today that's not the case

," said the right-wing senator.

Is his assertion justified?

Under the Fifth Republic, did a President of the Republic ever take so long to announce the appointment of his government after his election?

CHECK

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It has already been 25 days, this Thursday, May 19, that Emmanuel Macron was re-elected as head of the country and that he still has not formed a government.

It is fifteen days more than five years ago.

In 2017, the LREM candidate, elected on May 7, appointed Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister on May 15, then the list of his ministers two days later.

Before him, in 2012, François Hollande had also observed a period of ten days between his election and the appointment of his ministers.

His predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, had hardly taken much longer to decide (twelve days).

The fastest under the Fifth Republic will remain Jacques Chirac.

Freshly re-elected on May 5, 2002, the founder of the UMP had only waited forty-eight hours before revealing the list of his ministers.

Twenty days for De Gaulle

Five years earlier, the former mayor of Paris had taken eleven days.

Before him, François Mitterrand had also taken longer during his first election (twelve days) than for his second term (four days).

Emmanuel Macron's choice to play the watch is therefore all the more surprising since his two predecessors had both lost no time after their re-election.

In 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing unveiled the list of his ministers nine days after his victory in the second round against François Mitterrand.

Before Emmanuel Macron, we finally have to go back to Charles de Gaulle to remember such a long wait.

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Having come to power on December 21, 1958, the general formed a government on January 8, 1959, 18 days later.

Re-elected with 55.2% of the vote by universal suffrage on December 19, 1965, he then appointed the members of Georges Pompidou's government on January 8, 1966, that is to say 20 days after his re-election.

This is, before the current Head of State, the longest period of time that France has experienced between the appointment of the President of the Republic and the formation of its future government under the Fifth Republic.

In summary

, if we base ourselves on the duration between the election of the President of the Republic and the appointment of ministers, Philippe Bas is telling the truth.

Never, before Emmanuel Macron, has a president taken so long to form a government after his election.

Note, however, that the re-election of Emmanuel Macron is quite exceptional compared to his predecessors: unlike François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, the current president is the first re-elected outside the period of cohabitation since De Gaulle.

It is only since 2002 that legislative elections have followed presidential elections by a few weeks.

Consequently, Emmanuel Macron was perfectly free to continue at least until June with the government of Jean Castex, who only resigned on May 16, that is to say three days ago.

Source: lefigaro

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