Emmanuel Macron triggers the countdown to form the government

Emmanuel Macron ended Thursday evening June 30 a long international sequence which lasted a week.

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Emmanuel Macron ended Thursday evening June 30 a long international sequence which lasted a week.

Back in Paris, the president must now get back to work to name the new government.

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Emmanuel Macron does not like to react under pressure, reports

Valérie Gas

, from the political service of RFI.

Asked about the appointment of the Borne 2 government, the President of the Republic tried to deceive him as if everything was under control and that he was in fact respecting the political and parliamentary calendar: " 

The government, like the previous government , was able to make very structuring decisions on purchasing power and health issues, and will continue to do so;

afterwards, as far as the domain of the law is concerned, decisions which required that a new chamber be formed, with elections which are also expected within the new National Assembly. 

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All this is done in good order

 ” 

No question for Emmanuel Macron to recognize that the situation of a government on borrowed time with ministers beaten in the resigning legislative elections, with the case of

Damien Abad

against whom a new complaint for rape has been filed, paralyzes the action.

It's all done in good order,

" he said.

You referred to drawers, I open them one after the other.

I am not here to comment on what ministers say from Paris, nor to say what I am going to do in Paris.

I will when I get back.

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Emmanuel Macron has in any case given himself a little extra time: the declaration of general policy by

Elisabeth Borne

before Parliament has been postponed for a day, it will not finally take place until July 6.

Upon his return to Paris, Emmanuel Macron therefore triggered the countdown to finally compose the government.

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