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Chis time, it's executed. Eighteen days after Michel Barnier's appointment to Matignon, the brand new authorities took workplace on Monday, September 23. Handover ceremonies, first council of ministers: relive at the present time of Monday, September 23.
8 a.m.: breakfast
The 38 new ministers and secretaries of state met with Michel Barnier for a “government breakfast” on the Hôtel de Matignon. Michel Barnier requested his ministers to be “irreproachable and modest”. They then went to their respective ministries to hold out the ceremonies of the switch of energy.
10 a.m.: begin of handovers
The first occurred on the Ministry of Justice, Place Vendôme, in addition to on the Ministry of Agriculture, Rue de Varenne, at 10 a.m. The outgoing Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, admitted that he had a “heavy heart” as he left his submit. The man who was nicknamed “Acquittator” when he labored as a lawyer regretted having typically been “too alone in defending justice” with “political leaders who do not know it”. His successor, Didier Migaud, needed to “advance justice to make it closer to citizens, fairer, faster”. At 72, the person who left the Socialist Party in 2010 is taken into account the one left-wing politician within the new govt. Note the presence of Bruno Retailleau, the brand new Minister of the Interior, on the ceremony.
In Agriculture, the president of the MoDem deputies, Marc Fesneau, left his place to Annie Genevard of the Republicans (LR). She had develop into identified to most of the people this summer season by turning into interim president of the get together after Éric Ciotti's solitary resolution to ally with the National Rally (RN) for the legislative elections. “It is not just a ministry of crises,” Marc Fesneau assured his successor.
At 10:30 a.m., the handover ceremonies occurred on the Ministry of the Interior, Place Beauvau, and on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the Quai d'Orsay. The speech by Gérald Darmanin, changed by Bruno Retailleau, prompted controversy on social networks, whereas his successor insistently promised to “restore order”. On the opposite aspect of the Seine, Stéphane Séjourné (Renaissance), lately appointed European Commissioner, instructed Jean-Noël Barrot (MoDem) that the latter was “now in charge of the most beautiful of ministries”. He additionally despatched him “all his best wishes for success”.
The ballet of handover ceremonies continued with the Ministries of National Education between Nicole Belloubet and Anne Genetet on rue de Grenelle, of Higher Education between Sylvie Retailleau and Patrick Hetzel on rue Descartes, at 11 a.m., earlier than ending with that of the Ministry of Sports at midday between Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and Gil Avérous, on avenue de France.
3 p.m.: Council of Ministers
The ministers then all gathered round Emmanuel Macron on the Élysée Palace for his or her first weekly assembly. “A new era is dawning for the country. I will be there to help you succeed,” declared the President of the Republic. “Each person around the table is entrusted with a mission greater than themselves and beyond our differences,” added the Head of State. Emmanuel Macron referred to as on the ministers to “show humility” and “a spirit of dialogue” amongst themselves and “with the French people who have not all made this choice.”
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