Highlights: France: a reshuffle for what? The French are waiting for Emmanuel Macron's answers. After the appointment of the new French government, Emmanuel Macron received the majority parliamentarians at the Élysée Palace on Monday evening behind closed doors. The choice of a time in the early evening should allow him to obtain more audience than in the middle of the afternoon as during other press conferences. He will have to set this famous course that many have been seeking since the re-election of 2022: display priorities, say how he intends to "rearm" France.

After the appointment of the new French government, Emmanuel Macron received the majority parliamentarians at the Élysée Palace on Monday evening behind closed doors to provide after-sales service for a reshuffle that will lead to the creation of...

France: a reshuffle for what? The French are waiting for Emmanuel Macron's answers

After the appointment of the new French government, Emmanuel Macron received the majority parliamentarians at the Élysée Palace on Monday evening behind closed doors to do the after-sales service of a reshuffle that sacrificed the left wing of the Macronists. And he will speak on the evening of January 16 at a press conference. An exercise that he has practiced little since his first election in 2017 - excluding the presidential campaign, the last one dates back to 2019 - and which should allow him to explain to the French the reasons for his choices.

What is the purpose of a reshuffle? This is the question that Emmanuel Macron (our photo) will have to answer on the evening of Tuesday 16 January. AFP - GONZALO FUENTES

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What is the purpose of a reshuffle? This is the question that Emmanuel Macron will have to answer on the evening of 16 January. He will be in front of journalists, but in fact in front of the French people, because it is to them that the president wants to speak. The choice of a time in the early evening should allow him to obtain more audience than in the middle of the afternoon as during other press conferences.

He will have to set this famous course that many have been seeking since the re-election of 2022: display priorities, say how he intends to "rearm" France as he announced during his wishes of December 31. This evening, the Élysée promises "announcements".

Finding the magic recipe

Emmanuel Macron will also have to give the keys to understanding the choices of a reshuffle that saw Rachida Dati enter the government, the Sarkozy "snipeu" appointed to the Ministry of Culture under the authority of Gabriel Attal, crowned with the title of the youngest Prime Minister in history.

Symbols and an ambition that the head of state made clear at the first Council of Ministers of the year by asking the members of the government to be "revolutionaries" and not "managers". Revolution was the title of his campaign book in 2017 when he had the wind in his sails, as if he wanted to find the magic recipe...

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France: a reshuffle for what? The French are waiting for Emmanuel Macron's answers

France: a reshuffle for what? The French are waiting for Emmanuel Macron's answers

Finding the magic recipe

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