Plus Claude Greff, deputy from Indre-et-Loire, becomes secrétaire d'Etat à la Famille.
This shuffle is highly "mitterrandesque"
.
Laffineur for the former giscardians.
Greff for the socially conservative right.
Leonetti for the European centre-right.
Sauvadet to try to tie the NC to the UMP (a bit like the former MRG to the PS).
Mariani for the hard right.
Douillet to woo a specific category of voters (yeah, I know, normally, having Douillet should make you vote for Hollande or Aubry immediately
), a bit like Mitterrand did with "Economie sociale" or "Forests" portfolios.
Very, very mitterrandesque. Even more than the previous 2 shuffles.
It seems that Fillon eventually supported Baroin, because he wants to divide Baroin and Copé...
But I think it reveals how Sarkozy don't care about his ministers: Baroin wanted the portfolio ? He eventually has it.
You have Sauvadet who wants to be a plain minister ? Let's cut Civil Service and Budget, after you've said how much it's important to link them...
Leonetti wants health ? Let's put him at the European affairs.
Douillet ? Oh God, where can I put him ? Let's create a new lil' toy !
All this isn't very new, even before Sarkozy (Mitterrand and Chirac decided some very lunatic and weird designations... though they weren't as hated as Sarkozy...).
But, this time, I find this shuffle quite adequate politically speaking.
