Recasage, departure in the private sector, withdrawal from political life... what has become of Macron's former ministers?

The practice is nothing new, but for some it contrasts with the "new world" promised by Emmanuel Macron.

Several ex-ministers who left office last May or July have been appointed to positions in the senior civil service or at the head of certain state bodies, not always by passing through the grill of parliamentary committees.

Others left politics and joined exposed private groups, while some shunned public life entirely.

We take stock.

Those "relocated" in the high administration

Latest announcement to date: the former Minister in charge of Autonomy (July 2020-May 2022) then Health (May 2022 - July 2022),

, was appointed this Wednesday to the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs ( Igas).

She benefited from the government's "external tour", a recruitment procedure which allows the latter to appoint the person it wishes, "without any other condition than age".

Other former ministers were appointed by the government to positions of responsibility but had to pass a major oral test in Parliament.

, in charge of Housing, has been appointed head of the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE).

A majority of the members of the Economic Affairs Committees in the National Assembly and the Senate, however, voted against this appointment, the left denouncing a "fait du prince".

But without reaching the threshold of 3/5th of the votes, which would have blocked it.

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Jean Castex

took, for his part, the head of the Agence des infrastructures de France (Afit), after obtaining the agreement of the parliamentary committees for sustainable development and regional planning.

He succeeds Christophe Béchu, who took the opposite path by becoming Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion.

We can also go back further in the first five-year Macron.

After a passage by the World Health Organization, the former Minister of Health,

was appointed master adviser to the Court of Auditors at the end of July.

, former Minister for Territorial Cohesion, now sits on the Constitutional Council.

There she reunited with her former government colleague,

.

Those gone private

From public… to private.

Former transport minister

is now chairman of the board of car manufacturer Hopium.

The High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP) had given the green light to this reconversion, but on condition that the leader refrain from meeting ministers who were ministers at the same time as him and members of his cabinet. , notably.

The former Minister of Culture,

has regained her place in the audiovisual landscape, as a columnist on RTL and BFMTV in particular.

Outside the private sector, the former Minister of National Education,

for his part has again become an associate professor of public law.

He could be transferred from university

Sorbonne-Nouvelle to join Paris Panthéon-Assas.

Other former members of the government have been rejected in their reconversion project.

The former Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation,

, wanted to join the business school Skema Business School.

The HATVP opposed it, because his ministry or people under his authority made decisions concerning this school when it was in government.

Hence the risk of "pantouflage", prohibited by the Penal Code.

Those who have become parliamentarians again

Several former members of the government have returned to the benches of the National Assembly or the Senate following their departure.

The former Minister of Ecological Transition,

was re-elected MP for Oise last June.

At the same time, the former Minister Delegate for Tourism and then for Small and Medium Enterprises,

became a senator again.

Elisabeth Moreno

and

, respectively in charge of Equality between women and men and Sports, were however defeated in the legislative elections and will not sit in the Assembly for the next five years.

Those who left public life

For some, political life and more generally public life belong to the past.

The former Minister of Overseas then of the Sea,

returned to her territory of origin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, where she intends to “recharge and find a more ordinary daily life”.

The opportunity to recharge my batteries and find a more ordinary daily life.

Whether at the Secretary of State for Development and La Francophonie, at the Ministry of Public Service, at the Ministry of Overseas, at @MerGouv...

— Annick Girardin (@AnnickGirardin) May 20, 2022

“Grandmother for the first time at 3:31 p.m. and ex-minister at the same time, a new life begins,” wrote the former secretary of state for disabled people,

, on May 20.

, in charge of Children and Families, also intends to "dedicate a little more time to [his] loved ones and to [his] own family", as he indicated on Twitter on April 29.

Ditto for

, previously in charge of Agriculture, who now wants to "devote most of [his] energy" to his family.

, former Secretary of State for Digital, has also left politics.

He was named sponsor of the first promotion of the Albert School business school.