2023-05-14 00:32:32
LR now has its “shadow cabinet”. Eric Ciotti reveals in the JDD an alternative “counter-government” to Emmanuel Macron to defend the ideas of the party and build a programmatic project.
“I would like the programmatic work to be organized around the person who will have been in charge of the theme”, explains the president of the Republicans. Two months after the tearing of the party in the National Assembly around the pension reform, this “counter-government” mixes all the tendencies of LR. But the leader of the slingers Aurelien Pradiesacked from his position as number 2, does not appear there.
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Under the leadership of LR secretary general Annie Genevard, this team of around thirty “national secretaries” is also part of the effort to rebuild LR, both weakened by its electoral setbacks and having become pivotal thanks to its some 60 deputies who can add to the majority.
The sovereign pole includes the vice-president of the Ile-de-France region Frédéric Péchenard (Interior), the MEP Nadine Morano (Immigration), and Senator François-Noël Buffet (Justice). At the economic pole we find the expert Christian Saint-Etienne (Economy and Reindustrialisation), as well as the deputies Véronique Louwagie (Public Accounts), Valérie Bazin-Malgras (Companies) and Isabelle Périgault (Training). LR’s young guard is also represented with MPs Julien Dive (Agriculture), Antoine Vermorel-Marques (Environment) and Raphaël Schellenberger (Energy).
A tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries
In this almost equal counter-cabinet (15 women, 17 men), women’s rights go to Paris councilor Nelly Garnier and culture to the mayor of Taverny Florence Portelli. Deputy Philippe Juvin is in charge of Health and Senator Max Brisson of Education. Finally, questions relating to Foreign Affairs are followed by Michel Barnier as special adviser to the President.
The “shadow cabinet” is a highly institutionalized tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries, where each person in charge of a dossier is a potential future minister. In France, the appointment of such a cabinet by opposition parties is rare, but not unprecedented.
Then president of LR, Laurent Wauquiez had also endowed himself in November 2018 with a “shadow cabinet”, where Eric Ciotti was in charge of the Interior. The president of the RPR (ancestor of LR) Michèle Alliot-Marie had also appointed in 2000 an alternative cabinet to the government of the plural left of Lionel Jospin.
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