After an announcement that the government would be unveiled at 4 p.m. on the Élysée’s website, it was finally at 7 p.m. that the much-anticipated list dropped, both within the new presidential majority and the new oppositions. It was already known that Martine Aubry had declined an entry after the appointment of Jean-Marc Ayrault, and it is no great surprise that we thus find…
Mr. Laurent Fabius: Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Vincent Peillon: Minister of National Education
Mrs. Christiane Taubira: Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice
Mr. Pierre Moscovici: Minister of Economy, Finance, and Foreign Trade
Mrs. Marisol Touraine: Minister of Social Affairs and Health
Mrs. Cécile Duflot: Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing
Mr. Manuel Valls: Minister of the Interior
Mrs. Nicole Bricq: Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy
Mr. Arnaud Montebourg: Minister of Productive Recovery
Mr. Michel Sapin: Minister of Labor, Employment, and Social Dialogue
Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian: Minister of Defense
Mrs. Aurélie Filippetti: Minister of Culture and Communication
Mrs. Geneviève Fioraso: Minister of Higher Education and Research
Mrs. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: Minister of Women’s Rights and Government Spokesperson
Mr. Stéphane Le Foll: Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Mrs. Marylise Lebranchu: Minister of State Reform, Decentralization, and Civil Service
Mr. Victorin Lurel: Minister of Overseas
Mrs. Valérie Fourneyron: Minister of Sports, Youth, Popular Education, and Community Life
Mr. Jérôme Cahuzac: Delegate Minister to the Minister of Economy, Finance, and Foreign Trade, in charge of the Budget
Mrs. Georges-Pau Langevin: Delegate Minister to the Minister of National Education, in charge of Educational Success