From the Philippe authorities to the Barnier authorities, discover the profiles and trajectories of the 146 ministers and secretaries of state since 2017 | EUROtoday

Michel Barnier's authorities introduced on Saturday, September 21, contains eight ministers or secretaries of state who had already served underneath the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, and thirty-two newcomers. This brings to 146 the variety of personalities who’ve participated in a authorities since Mr. Macron's first election.

An evaluation of all governments since May 2017 reveals a steady shift of the political spectrum in direction of the precise. Current or former members of Les Républicains quantity twenty-two out of forty – together with the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier. Twelve of them nonetheless belong to the get together whereas three have left it with out displaying a brand new political affiliation. Also noteworthy is the growing participation of centre-right figures: three ministers from the Union of Independent Democrats and one from the Radical Party.

There are virtually no left-wing figures, other than the previous socialist Didier Migaud (justice), who has held senior civil service positions on the Court of Auditors and the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life for over ten years. Several different figures have been members of the Socialist Party – similar to Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet (labor), till 2007, or Laurent Saint-Martin (till 2012), the price range minister. Finally, Thani Mohamed Soilihi (Secretary of State for Francophonie), senator from Mayotte, sat with the socialist group earlier than becoming a member of the presidential majority in 2017.

While the primary Macronist governments gave pleasure of place to members from civil society, this proportion has shrunk dramatically. There are solely two of them left: Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who has been a continuing presence in each authorities since October 2018, who’s taking on the Ministry of Ecological Transition, and Clara Chappaz, who’s becoming a member of the federal government as Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology.

A balanced however unbalanced crew

Parity is revered, with twenty males and twenty girls, however this obvious steadiness leans in direction of the male facet for ministers, and the feminine facet for deputy ministers and secretaries of state. Since 2017, the portfolios of financial system and inside have at all times been occupied by males. In agriculture, Annie Genevard is the primary lady since 2017, and even since Christine Lagarde in 2007.

The authorities can also be barely older than the earlier authorities, with a median age of 53, in comparison with 49 underneath Gabriel Attal – the youngest prime minister of the Fifth Republic.^e Republic.

Michel Barnier's crew has been largely reshuffled in comparison with earlier ones. Since his election in 2017, Mr. Macron had step by step constructed his ministerial crew by recruiting from the precise, the left and from civil society, however over the course of the reshuffles, new personalities have turn out to be rarer. Today, essentially the most loyal, similar to Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin, have left the federal government, after greater than seven years in several positions.