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PARIS (Reuters) – Here are essential points of the main ministerial appointments after French President Emmanuel Macron’s relate of job unveiled on Saturday the new cabinet that will file to Top Minister Michel Barnier:
ANTOINE ARMAND, FINANCE MINISTER
A relative newcomer to politics, Armand, 33, used to be first elected to parliament in 2022 on the centrist mark of Macron’s camp and used to be re-elected in July’s snap legislative election.
In the new parliament, he had been relate to head the industrial committee in the lower dwelling unless Barnier tapped him for the tip job at the distinguished Ministry of Economics and Finance.
Armand is not any stranger to “Bercy” as the ministry is mostly called in France, having joined its elite corps of finance inspectors after graduating in 2018 from the accepted Ecole Nationale d’Administration – a training college for future senior civil servants that Macron moreover attended.
He’ll be seconded by Laurent Saint-Martin on finances points, a unruffled portfolio that will file straight to the prime minister, as France struggles to contain a rising finances deficit and contemplates spending cuts and tax hikes.
BRUNO RETAILLEAU, INTERIOR MINISTER
A conservative senator since 2004, Bruno Retailleau, 63, is identified for his laborious-factual views and is the most senior figure from his Republicans (LR) event to enter Barnier’s government.
Retailleau used to be a driving power behind the event’s shift to the factual in an increasingly polarised political panorama, in explicit on sizzling-button points reminiscent of immigration.
As chief of the conservative community of senators, Retailleau has criticised Macron’s newest makes an try to toughen immigration rules, calling for an incredible more difficult stance that may include constitutional adjustments allowing welfare profit cuts.
He has moreover entreated more difficult policing on left-wing and environmental protesters and opposed Macron’s push to add the factual for women folk to pursue an abortion to the constitution.
JEAN-NOEL BARROT, FOREIGN MINISTER
Barrot, 41, is promoted to foreign places minister after serving as junior minister for European affairs since February 2024. Before that he used to be Macron’s minister for digital affairs.
Barrot comes from a family with a stable political background. His father, Jacques Barrot, used to be a prominent French baby-kisser who served in utterly different ministerial positions and as a European commissioner.
He affords obligatory political stability for the government, hailing from the centrist event of Francois Bayrou, the political outdated whose independent MoDem event Macron needs to maintain on his aspect.
BENJAMIN HADDAD, EUROPE MINISTER
Haddad, 38, a fluent English-speaker with elegant contacts in Washington, DC, the attach he spent years working at a think-tank, used to be first elected to parliament in 2022 below Macron’s event colours.
He has been vocal on diplomatic points and in particular the struggle in Ukraine, having convinced tens of European lawmakers to impress a plea to the U.S. Congress to release serve for Ukraine at the terminate of 2023.
SEBASTIEN LECORNU, DEFENCE MINISTER
Lecornu, a Macron loyalist, remains in his post at the helm of the Defence Ministry.
A low-profile minister who began his occupation in conservative ranks, he used to be excluded from the Republicans after being named a junior minister in Macron’s government in 2017.
