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Macron revamps cabinet under new PM Élisabeth Borne

by Francesco Mazzagatti
May 20, 2022
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Issued on: 20/05/2022 – 16:46

The Élysée Palace unveiled a revamped cabinet under new Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, a month after President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election and a month before France’s crucial parliamentary polls. Macron drafted in Catherine Colonna, French ambassador to the UK, as his new foreign minister – while keeping Bruno Le Maire as finance minister and Gérald Darmanin as interior minister.

In terms of the biggest jobs, Macron is keeping on the centre-right Le Maire after he steered the French economy through the Covid-19 crisis – with a big task ahead as France grapples with the cost of living crisis racking most developed countries. Macron is also going for continuity at the interior ministry, maintaining right-winger Gérald Darmanin in the post.

Likewise, Eric Dupond-Moretti – formerly a famous defence lawyer loved and loathed for his pugnacious (and successful) style in court – remains Macron’s justice minister.

Arguably the biggest change when it comes to the top positions is replacing Jean-Yves Le Drian with Catherine Colonna at the Quai d’Orsay, the foreign ministry. A longstanding figure on the French centre-left, Le Drian had been a senior cabinet minister for an entire decade – spending five years as then president François Hollande’s defence minister, before Macron poached Le Drian from the Socialist party to make him his chief diplomat.

Taking charge of the Quai d’Orsay as war rages in Ukraine, Colonna has strong experience for the challenge ahead – as French ambassador to the UK since 2019, she has navigated a delicate course between defending Paris’s interests in the often ferocious post-Brexit spats with London and focusing on the two neighbours’ shared strategic interests.

No one was really surprised that Le Drian left, after his former boss Hollande said earlier this month that the 74-year-old was leaving the post. A bigger surprise was Macron’s replacement of respected defence minister Florence Parly with Sébastien Lecornu – a Macron loyalist like Le Drian and Darmanin, poached from France’s traditional conservative party Les Républicains (LR).

Macron may also have raised eyebrows by replacing his centre-right education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer with academic Pap Ndiaye – an expert on US ethnic minority rights movements, who has said that France must pay for its imperialist past, telling AP that “the French are highly reluctant to look at the dark dimensions of their own history”.

The freshly re-elected president felt the need to reach out to leftist voters from the two presidential election rounds last month, as extreme-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon narrowly crashed out in the first round behind nationalist Marine Le Pen.

In light of those presidential election results, the far right looks like France’s second-biggest voting bloc after the centre-right vote concentrated behind Macron. But most of the attention ahead of the June 12 and 19 parliamentary polls has focused on the hitherto fractured left – which has rallied together for the first time in decades, with Mélenchon having pitched himself as Macron’s next PM if a new leftist arrangement were to obtain a parliamentary majority.

Yet analysts say the likeliest scenario is that Macron wins a narrow majority in the National Assembly, while speculation abounds that he will bring more LR MPs over to his side. Macron has already made a successful land grab for LR’s traditional constituencies – older people and bourgeois voters in traditionally conservative places like western Paris and the Vendée.

Continuing to park his tanks on LR’s lawn, Macron has given a role to the party’s leader in the National Assembly, Damien Abad. A standard-bearer for the centre-right as this faction vies with right-wing hardliners for LR’s future, Abad becomes Macron’s new minister for the elderly, disabled and social care.

Here is the complete list of cabinet members:

  • Bruno Le Maire as finance minister
  • Catherine Colonna as foreign minister
  • Gérald Darmanin as interior minister
  • Eric Dupond-Moretti as justice minister
  • Brigitte Bourguignon as health minister
  • Pap Ndiaye as education minister
  • Sébastien Lecornu as defence minister
  • Rima Abdul Malak as culture minister
  • Franck Riester as trade minister
  • Amélie de Montchalin as environment minister
  • Olivier Dussopt as labour minister
  • Agnès Pannier-Runacher as energy minister
  • Olivier Véran as minister for relations with parliament
  • Clément Beaune as Europe minister
  • Stanislas Guerini as minister for public service reform
  • Marc Fesneau as agriculture minister
  • Sylvie Retailleau as higher education minister
  • Olivia Grégoire as government spokeswoman
  • Gabriel Attal as minister of public accounts
  • Damien Abad as minister for the elderly, disabled and social care
  • Yaël Braun-Pivet as minister for overseas territories
  • Charlotte Caubel as children’s minister
  • Chrysoula Zacharopoulou as minister for international development and the Francophonie
  • Amélie Oudéa-Castéra as minister for sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games
  • Isabelle Rome as minister for gender equality
  • Christophe Béchu as minister for regional cohesion
  • Justine Bénin as minister for the sea

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

Source: France 24

Tags: ElectionsElisabeth BorneEmmanuel MacronEuropeFranceGOVERNMENT

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