The new government goes to practical work. The day after its first Council of Ministers, the new government team will submit to the famous QAG, questions to the government, this Wednesday morning in the Assembly and then in the afternoon in the Senate. And opposition MPs are waiting for new ministers.
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"It's an opportunity to put the ministers on the grill"
"The QAGs are always an opportunity to put the ministers on the grill, there will be absolutely no gifts made in the hemicycle," warns Republican Fabien Di Filippo. Expecting him in particular at the turn was former MP Barbara Pompili, now Minister for the Ecological Transition. "We will quickly want to know if she will put into practice, as a minister, as in her committee, a rather sectarian vision of ecology."
New also on the ministers' bench, Maître Dupond-Moretti, to whom the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu plans to demand accountability. "He is above all an ardent defender of the ban on the RN. This questions us, with regard to public liberties, that the new Keeper of the Seals wishes to ban the first opposition party," he explains.
"We hesitated to come"
This is the usual game, the opposition is waiting to see what the new entrants in the womb. Especially since the Prime Minister's general policy speech, which lends itself well to the exercise, is postponed until next week. The rebels were on the verge of drying up the QAG session. "Quite frankly, we hesitated to come," he said. "It is a paradox to challenge a government whose general policy, in theory, is unknown, which has not even had a vote of confidence in the Assembly."
But Jean-Luc Mélenchon's group will be very present in the hemicycle, where the personalities of Roselyne Bachelot and Eric Dupond-Moretti promise lively contests.