Macron's modest reshuffle rewards political loyalists
After considerable delays, French president Emmanuel Macron and his prime minister Élisabeth Borne, newly re-confirmed in her role, have carried out a government reshuffle. The main theme is the removal of ministers from a civic society background, who were considered too low-profile. They have instead been replaced by more political appointments in the form of Macron loyalists and Parliamentarians. The prime minister and her team hope this will make the government function more effectively. As for any new political impetus, that will have to wait. Political correspondent Ilyes Ramdani reports.
AmidAmid the heat of a July heatwave, and squeezed in between two foreign trips by President Emmanuel Macron, a new French government under prime minister Élisabeth Borne has been formed. The Élysée announced the make up of the government - dubbed 'Borne III' following the premier's two previous ministerial teams – on Thursday afternoon. News of the reshuffle was communicated to the media via a statement. Unlike previous occasions there was no formal reading out of the ministerial names at an Élysée lectern by Macron's chief of staff Alexis Kohler. This was, according to the head of state's entourage, a way of downplaying the scope of this reshuffle.
