First Council of Ministers almost a month to the day after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron.

The team of the new Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne must tread, Monday, May 23, shortly before 10 a.m., the gravel of the Élysée for a Council of Ministers which really launches the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, with already a false note: the rape charges against Damien Abad.

Three days after the end of the long maturation which presided over the casting of Matignon as ministers, the new government is meeting in full force with the main priorities set out by the president on the menu: school, health, ecological transition but also the fight against climate change. 'inflation.

"The first text examined by the new National Assembly will therefore be on purchasing power", confirmed Elisabeth Borne in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche.

Blocking of energy prices maintained, food check, revaluation of pensions and social minima, tripling of the Macron bonus...



The 1st bill to be examined by the National Assembly will relate to purchasing power.

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— Elisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) May 20, 2022

The Prime Minister has listed various measures provided for in this future text, concretely an amending law for the 2022 budget: extension of the tariff shield, food check, raising of the index point for civil servants, abolition of the audiovisual license fee, etc.

So many measures with a sweet taste for households but at a salty cost for public finances, as the legislative elections loom for which the majority is favored despite a probable strong push from the united left.

Pap Ndiaye and Damien Abad particularly scrutinized

This Council of Ministers will be the occasion for a first lap for the newcomers to a Borne government which nevertheless has a majority of members of the outgoing team (14 out of a total of 27 members).

Among the new faces, that of the Minister of National Education, the academic Pap Ndiaye, will be at the center of attention.

The only real surprise of the new executive, his appointment has sparked a barrage of furious reactions from the far right, which accuses him of "wanting to deconstruct the country".

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But the political agenda of the executive will have to reckon with the Damien Abad affair, revealed during the weekend.

Appointed Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, the former president of the Les Républicains (LR) group in the National Assembly and Macronie's main war prize since the victory of the outgoing president on April 24, faces to serious accusations of rape in an article published on Saturday by Médiapart - accusations which he denies "with the greatest force".

According to Mediapart, two women, whose testimony the newspaper collected, accuse Damien Abad of rape in 2010 and 2011. A report was made last week to LR, La République en Marche (LREM) and to the justice system, which says analyze it.

The Paris prosecutor's office has already dismissed two complaints, in 2012 and 2017, from one of the complainants.

Elisabeth Borne "not aware"

After the criticisms aimed at the investiture of LREM Jérôme Peyrat, sentenced in 2020 for violence against an ex-companion, and who finally resolved to withdraw his candidacy, the executive and the majority must face a new storm on the file. violence against women.

"Not aware" of these cases before their revelation by Médiapart, Élisabeth Borne promised to draw "all the consequences" in the event of "new elements" and referral to justice, during a trip to Calvados where she is seeking a first term as deputy.

Three weeks before the first round of the legislative elections, the Élysée has also put pressure on the fourteen minister-candidates.

In accordance with an unwritten rule dating from 2007, and already enacted in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron, they will have to resign in the event of defeat in this next election.

A rule that also applies to Elisabeth Borne.

With AFP

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