Olivier Dussopt, a 39-year-old specialist in regional affairs, will become junior minister in the public accounts ministry led by Gerard Darmanin. Dussopt’s nomination did not go over well with his leftist colleagues, with one party official, Rachid Temal, saying “he is no longer a Socialist party member”. She was named junior finance minister. Benjamin Griveaux, the junior finance minister who was the spokesman for Macron’s En Marche movement before Macron was swept to the presidency in May, will become the government’s spokesman. Last Saturday hundreds of protesters marched to Macron’s official residence in Paris to denounce what they called his “antisocial policies”.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2017 04:18 UTC