Face of the executive during the health crisis, the 53-year-old Minister of the Economy will be seconded by the former government spokesperson, a faithful of the Head of State.
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Bruno Le Maire repeated it for months, denying the multiple rumors already giving him to Matignon or education: he wanted to stay in Bercy. “Ministerial Tourism”, very little for him. Including act. Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne, after wanting to entrust this ministry to Julien Denormandie, finally chose to renew “BLM” in his functions, Friday, May 20, for the second mandate of the Head of State. A sign of the importance given to his portfolio, his name was cited first by the Secretary General of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, when he gave up the list of members of the government. Which in fact, in protocol terms, the number two of the government.
At the head of a powerful ministry of economy with slightly redesigned borders – but still deprived of foreign trade, attached to the Quai d’Orsay -, the one who was one of the heavyweights of the first five -year term will not have Not the easy task, while the economic environment is darkening and public finances offer few room for maneuver. “Thanks to Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne for their renewed confidence, tweeted the ex-LR, a few minutes after his renewal. It is with enthusiasm and commitment that I continue my work at the service of the French and the French. My priorities: employment, industrial sovereignty and fight against inflation. “
At 53, Bruno Le Maire formally becomes Minister of the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty. A somewhat amended title (exit the “recovery” of 2020) reflecting the priorities of the Head of State, in particular the reindustrialisation of the country after the health crisis, at the heart of the France 2030 Investment Plan announced in the fall of 2021 .
He remains the only full exercise minister in Bercy, as has been the case since the 2020 reshuffle, and will be assisted in the budget by Gabriel Attal, 33, a faithful of the Head of State appointed Minister Deputy to public accounts. Coming from the left, former adviser to Marisol Touraine for social affairs under François Hollande, he was hitherto spokesperson for the government. He succeeds Olivier Dussopt, in office since 2020, and promoted to the Ministry of Labor. On the other hand, no post of secretary of state has been announced, while Bercy had two so far, as well as three delegated ministers.
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Even if he is not an intimate of Emmanuel Macron, and claims a form of freedom of speech, the former candidate for the primary of the right in 2016 gave all the pledges of loyalty to the chief of the ‘State since 2017, becoming one of the faces of the government during the crisis linked to the COVID-19. He defended and embodied the economic policy of the government, even operating an ideological conversion in favor of public expenditure during the pandemic. Moving in war chief, the one who wanted to suppress 500,000 civil servant positions in 2016, without hesitation, opened budgetary valves with the “whatever it costs” when it appeared that the virus was going to paralyze the economy . Less convinced by successive recovery and investment plans, carried by Matignon rather than Bercy, he then resumed his budgetary costume, tirelessly pleading for a pension reform.
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