A reshuffle to relaunch the five-year term? This is the rumor that is circulating more and more in the corridors of Matignon. It would then materialize the launch of a new chapter for the President of the Republic. Eager to leave behind him the troubled period of pension reform.
On the front line for this reshuffle: Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Solidarity Economy and Associative Life. But not that … The name of the Prime Minister is not ruled out, despite the denials of the president.
“The Prime Minister is implementing the policy to which I have been committed to the French for more than a year. We have a record of which we have nothing to be ashamed of”, said the president recently to reaffirm his support for the First minister. Yet several times targeted by eviction rumors. “For more than a year, Elisabeth Borne has worked to implement all of this in a determined, courageous manner at the head of a committed government with a relative majority but which has been able to build alliances”, he added. .
The president therefore seems to praise the merits of Elisabeth Borne and intends to let her complete the “100 days” of action and appeasement of the government. Indeed, “I gave an intensification program, the hundred days, which it is implementing”, he concluded. Would the Prime Minister therefore be out of the question? Some close to the Elysée seem convinced.
“There are the supporters of the status quo, who do not want a reshuffle as a response to the crisis and who use the riots to say that it is urgent not to change anything but to carry out a technical reorganization. And those who say that there needs to be a big upheaval, with a change of Prime Minister”, confides a close friend of the Elysée. “I do not see a Borne hypothesis leaving. Afterwards, there is a question of numbers. We are 42, we are too many. I see a tightening.” judges on the other hand a minister. It must be said that these last hours are marked more and more by rumors of reshuffle. This little music, probably in the minds of many ministers, seems inevitable and infinite until its outcome.
In any case, on the agenda, the window now seems too short to consider a reshuffle on July 14. Without forgetting the risk of a new conflagration of the suburbs… Only one date could be envisaged: that of July 26, that is to say the last Council of Ministers.
Very expected for this redesign announcement, if it took place: Marlène Schiappa. The accumulation of his odds makes him the obvious victim. Last April, his front page in Playboy did not go unnoticed. And despite her speech on Twitter: “Defending the right of women to dispose of their bodies is everywhere and all the time. In France, women are free. No offense to retrogrades and hypocrites”. She does not seem to have unanimous support within the government. Very recently, a minister took it up on her on the subject: “Are we going to have sex all summer with Schiappa on the cover of Closer? risked having people like that out of control,” he said.
A personality who disturbs the Elysée for his controversial words in the media. The latest: that around the fiasco of the management of the Marianne fund. The fund, created to fight against separatism after the death of Samuel Paty, for which she was responsible, has been the subject of a judicial inquiry opened since May 4 for “negligent embezzlement of public funds”, “breach of trust ” and “illegal taking of interests”. The adventurers of the ministerial tribe seem convinced of his imminent ousting.
