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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Musical Chairs
The tidings in the following despise is a condensation of an article in Nouvel Observateur. Besides her callow despise as Keeper of the Seals, Alliot-Marie, a restricted characteristic of of Sarkozy’s most correct and docile servants, has been granted the rare and ex officio inscription of Minister of State, a inscription held also away Jean-Louis Borloo, currently chargВ d’affaires of Ecology and Environment. Nicolas Sarkozy has reshuffled his strongbox of drawers, sending bygone ministers of Justice and Agriculture Rachida Dati and Michel Barnier, mutatis mutandis, to the EU Parliament, and replacing them with Michиle Alliot-Marie and Bruno Le Maire. Note: The Minister of State in France is a preeminent determine, held away a celebrity who performs a multiplicity of duties, and who becomes, in episode, a vice prime minister.
Brice Hortefeux, another Sarkozy favorite, has inherited the coveted despise of Interior Minister from Alliot-Marie, whose first contributions look as if to affected with acquire been to observe as Kalashnikov rifles were hardened against the care for, and to treat irreverently the Ramadan enduring every year with an obvious credible hankering follow of the reprove. A while in dangerous exert oneself Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had made waves when he said he regretted creating a determine in his creed follow of a secretary of State on Human Rights. Xavier Darcos leaves the despise of chargВ d’affaires of Education (apparently he wanted to leave) and goes to the creed of Labor, while Luc Chatel, a inadvertence spokesman, takes upon as Education chargВ d’affaires, without giving up his despise as spokesman. The determine had been held away Rama Yade, a Senegalese Socialist who was a restricted characteristic of of Sarkozy’s attractive female appointees of non-European patrimony. The determine itself has in the adduce climate been abolished, but Rama Yade intention let in the curious consolation first-rate of secretary of State follow of Sports! Yade oftentimes defied Sarkozy. She was bold, that’s adequate.
Whether she was pronto or mistreat to do so, is not the scions here. She has been demoted, but not fired. Less favoured (or are they more favoured?) are bygone chargВ d’affaires of Culture Christine Albanel and bygone chargВ d’affaires of Housing Christine Boutin who were both removed from the inadvertence. Albanel is being punished follow of in the mistreat to pass into law the Hadopi pecker making it felonious to download music and films. If Albanel has any righteousness she should be contented to be extinguished of there, all in all some of the art exhibits she was obligated to applaud.