Paris (AFP)
The government of Jean Castex is finally complete after the appointment of eleven Secretaries of State, including 6 new personalities, announced Sunday by the Elysee.
Among these new entrants, the Elysée adviser Clément Beaune (European affairs) and the deputies Bérangère Abba (biodiversity), Nathalie Elimas (Priority education), Sarah El Hairy (Youth and engagement), Olivia Grégoire (Social economy, solidarity and responsible) and Joël Giraud (rurality). The re-appointed Secretaries of State are Sophie Cluzel (People with disabilities), Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Tourism, French abroad and French-speaking), Cédric O (Digital transition and electronic communities), Laurent Pietraszewski (Pensions and occupational health) and Adrien Taquet (Children and families).
We therefore had to wait almost three weeks for the government to be completed. In the end, it has 16 ministers, 14 deputy ministers and 12 secretaries of state (only one, Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson, had been appointed on July 6), for a total of 42 members.
Parity is respected, and even a little better, since including Jean Castex, there are 21 men and 22 women in this government.
The President of the Republic will bring them all together on the occasion of the next Council of Ministers, this Wednesday, July 29 at 10:00 am, the Elysee said in his press release.
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