For the government, it's back to school! Wednesday, after the Council of Ministers, and in the presence of new entrants Jean-Paul Delevoye and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, the members of the executive will gather around Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe for a government seminar of return to Elysium. Objective: to push the ministers to work on the daily problems of the French. But this meeting now regular does not convince everyone, and some ministers begin to complain about the exercise.
"There is a theatrical side!" Every time, there are fayots who raise their hands to make themselves well known to the president, "says, privately, a leading minister. And for some members of the government, this macronist "team-building" exercise has reached its limits. "There are too many of us around the table to make it really effective," says a senior government official, for whom the agendas are too busy to afford this break time.
"We are all already at work"
Are government seminars a waste of time? Some experienced ministers are beginning to think, especially since the last organized in late April in Matignon after the "great national debate", during a full day under the direction of Édouard Philippe. "The atmosphere was a little too relaxed," recalls an adviser who expects a lot of the seminar on Wednesday under the direct leadership of President Emmanuel Macron. For impatience rises in this return that stretches. "We are all already at work," annoyed the entourage of a minister from the right, before letting go: "It's been four times that inaugurates the act 2".