Nineteen entrants and five leavers, including Damien Abad: the government was reshuffled on Monday, two weeks after the legislative elections, a way to fully launch a five-year term that promises to be perilous.
In the introduction to the first Council of Ministers which was held in the afternoon, Emmanuel Macron deplored the refusal of the "government parties" to participate in "any form of coalition".
“It should be noted that the government parties are unwilling to participate in a government agreement or any form of coalition,” he said, according to some images broadcast by the Elysée and quickly cut.
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Next step: the general policy speech delivered by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday.
But the idea that it submit it to a vote of confidence seems more and more illusory and even abandoned, according to information from the Parisian, for lack of a majority in the Assembly.
Above all, the substitutes of the deputies called to the government will not be able to sit in the hemicycle for a month, thus depriving the majority of their votes.
The first real test is scheduled for July 18 with the examination of the bill on purchasing power, with the aim of adopting it before the end of July or "beginning of August maximum, to have very rapid effects for the French”, underlined Sunday Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the National Assembly.
In the meantime, the new government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, will hold his first press briefing this Monday at the end of the day.