It keeps track of the most important figures in the Economy, Home Affairs, Defence, Justice or Abroad portfolios. However, it renounces Solidarity Minister Damien Abad, accused of rape, as well as the Health, Energy Transition and the Sea ministers, who were not elected in the parliamentary elections.
the chairman of France, Emmanuel macron, revealed on Monday the list of ministers that will form the new government, without major changes but with some nuances due to the results of the latest parliamentary elections and scandals such as the one involving outgoing Solidarity Minister Damien Abad, who is accused of rape.
After the second round of elections on June 19, Macron was forced to reshuffle a cabinet he had already warned would remove all those members who did not get a seat. In France, there has been an unwritten rule for years that the losers in an election cannot be part of the government.
What Prime Ministerwill follow Elisabeth Borne, something that was already taken for granted. i know too maintains the hard core of the Executive, with names such as Bruno Le Maire in Economy, Gerard Darmanin Inside, Catherine Colonna in foreign, Eric Dupond-Moretti in Justice and Sebastian Lecornu in To defend.
The new government spokesman It will be Olivier Véran, former Minister of Health, while this portfolio will now be accompanied by the doctor François Braun, who replaces Brigitte Bourguignon after the latter’s defeat in the last parliamentary elections.
also abandon the executive the Minister of Energy Transition, Amélie de Montchalin, and of the Sea, Justine Benin, who were not elected in the parliamentary elections in June.
The innovation too served to divorce to some of the biggest names controversial of the previous cabinet, such as the State Secretary for Development, the gynecologist Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, accused of rape, or the Minister for Solidarity and the Disabled, the conservative Damian Abadwho was questioned by several women’s allegations of sexual assault, which last week led to the opening of an inquest into attempted rape, and who has been replaced by Jean-Christophe Combe.
In the case of Abad, the subject of formal investigation, was added this Monday the testimony of a former conservative youth militant who, in statements to the BFMTV network, mentions an alleged meeting in 2013 in which, according to her version, waking up confused in a hotel room after meeting in a bar.
The testimony coincides with another recently published by Médiapart in which a woman also points to the possible ingestion of some type of product that would have caused her to lose consciousness and wake up in a room the next morning. However, Abad has always denied committing any abuse.
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