Emmanuel Macron asked that as early as June begin to be replaced some central government leaders who disagree with the government's policy, so that its reforms be implemented more quickly, said government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye on Wednesday.
At the Council of Ministers, "the President of the Republic has wished that the appointments at the head of the central administrations can reflect our will" that reforms are "accelerated", with "a perceptible translation by our fellow citizens", she declared. "There will probably be announcements and moves starting next week and in the month of June," she added.
"We can not imagine the Director of Public Finance disagreeing with the withholding tax"
Since the beginning of his five-year term, the head of state had announced that he wanted to replace reluctant senior officials, whom, according to his entourage, he regularly criticized for curbing his reforms. A form of "spoil system" to the French (literally "system of spoils", American practice of replacing key officials of administrations by personalities whose loyalty is acquired to the new power).
But he has not so far carried out large-scale replacements, merely putting senior officials under pressure, sometimes calling them to the Elysee, or by probing the candidates before their appointment, according to the same source. "It is obvious that the deployment of public policies requires the heads of the central administrations to be perfectly in agreement with these deployments." It is not imagined that the Director General of Public Finance disagrees with the withholding tax he is supposed to put in place. This is an additional difficulty that can be avoided, "she said.
Sibeth Ndiaye noted, without wanting to specify the ministries referred to, that "there are places where things do not go very well, because the person is not at the right place at the right time and therefore it requires changes It is this type of change that the President has called the government. "