Multiple wallets to assign
Although 14 ministers were appointed on January 11, there are still important portfolios to be assigned at the end of the reshuffle. Housing, Industry, Transport and even Health have no or no longer a full minister. Delegate ministers could be appointed.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “on task” according to Prisca Thevenot
Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot assured this Tuesday that the Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was “fully on task”, while rumors of a return of François Bayrou to rue de Grenelle are growing.
“We must not relieve her of part of her portfolio, she is perfectly and fully up to the task,” declared the minister on the set of TF1, pressed for questions on the reshuffle expected in the coming hours.
Prisca Thevenot recognized “an awkwardness” on the part of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra who had criticized “the bundles of unreplaced hours” in public school, but, she qualified, “she had an exemplary career as as Minister of Sports and we looked at her and judged her based on what she did on the merits, particularly on the issue of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Asked about his replacement by the president of the MoDem François Bayrou, historic ally of President Emmanuel Macron, cleared on Monday in the affair of the parliamentary assistants, Prisca Thevenot replied: “he was a good minister”, in reference to his years at the Education between 1993 and 1997.
The “a priori” reshuffle announced during the day
The end of the reshuffle will be “a priori” announced this Tuesday, during the day, by press release, according to the Elysée.
François Bayrou met Emmanuel Macron
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After his acquittal in the affair of the Modem MEPs, François Bayrou met the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, this Monday evening. He could make his return to the government, after his resignation in 2017.
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Bayrou future minister? “I never shied away”
Would he agree to be minister again following this decision? “I don’t know,” he initially replies to Apolline de Malherbe.
“There are many ways to serve, I have never eliminated or chosen any of them. I have never shied away from any request to serve our country, ever,” he insists, seeming to imply that he would accept if we offered it to him.
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Bayrou believes there is a “problem” with justice
Commenting on the court decision taken against him yesterday, François Bayrou believes that there is a “problem” with current justice.
“There is a problem because there is not a citizen who can understand what we are saying. (…) I think there are very important changes to be made,” he says.
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Bayrou: “A feeling of relief and waste”
If François Bayrou was personally acquitted in the affair of the MoDem European parliamentary assistants, his party was still hit with a financial sanction (350,000 euros including 300,000 firm) and five ex-MoDem MEPs sentenced.
Yesterday when he left court he felt that it was 7 years of nightmare that were coming to an end.” Guest of RMC-BFMTV today, he expressed a feeling of “relief and waste”.
“7 years of suspicion, defamation, heavy legal mechanics…”
A release which gives him momentum and political weight in the Attal government, the second part of which must be announced very soon.
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Oudéa-Castéra has the “trust” of Macron and Attal, but…
In the hot seat, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “has the confidence” of Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal, assured Sunday the Minister responsible for Relations with Parliament, Marie Lebec. But maintaining his position raises questions at the top of the state. In Parliament, “the vast majority of Renaissance deputies have given up and think it’s over”, reports an elected official from the presidential party to AFP, but the president’s “psychology” on this subject remains “unfathomable”.
François Bayrou back in government?
Will François Bayrou, guest of “Face to face” with Apolline de Malherbe this Tuesday on RMC-BFMTV at 8:30 a.m., make his return to the government after his acquittal in the affair of the assistants of Modem MEPs? Discussions lasted until late at night from Monday to Tuesday and are still underway this Tuesday morning. The boss of Modem is raising the stakes, particularly on the number of ministers from his party who would enter the government.
“Discussions are still ongoing on the number of Modem ministers that François Bayrou would like to see maintained, in addition to his arrival,” indicates a source close to Emmanuel Macron, who adds that “Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and the president of the Republic Emmanuel Macron still finds Modem’s demands excessive in the context of a tightened government.
National Education, of which François Bayrou was already minister 30 years ago, remains one of the most important subjects in his eyes.
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Amélie Oudéa-Castéra in danger
After regaining responsibility for National Education, in addition to Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sparked several controversies with her comments on private schools in particular. She is in the hot seat before the end of this reshuffle, which is increasingly difficult to support in the National Assembly.
A Macronist MP confides off-microphone: “I don’t see how she can get out of it.”
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The reshuffle must (finally) be completed
After the appointment of 14 ministers on January 11, following the arrival of Gabriel Attal at Matignon, the rest of the reshuffle is expected this Tuesday. The ministries which have not been reassigned until then must receive their new tenants. But the main question concerns the future of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports and National Education, who is weakened by several controversies.