Amélie de Montchalin was appointed this Monday as Minister for Public Accounts in the government of François Bayrou, replacing Laurent Saint-Martin.
Aged 39, a graduate of HEC, this trained economist has already been a minister three times under Emmanuel Macron.
Under the old majority, she was considered “a real pillar of finance” in the National Assembly.
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Defeated in the legislative elections in June 2022, she had to leave the government. Amélie de Montchalin returns to government, this Monday, December 23, in a ministry delegated to Public Accounts. A field which will not be foreign to this trained economist who has served for two years as permanent representative of France within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Amélie de Montchalin, 39, has already been featured three times within a government, under the former Macronist majority. During the first five-year term, she was appointed Secretary of State for European Affairs, Minister of Transformation and Public Service, then Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion at the start of the second five-year term. Just a few days before having to give up his place to Christophe Béchu.
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Amélie de Montchalin graduated from HEC and Harvard, and worked in the banking sector (BNP Paribas) then insurance (Axa) before being elected MP for Essonne in 2017 and entering government in 2019 Coming from the right, on the line of Alain Juppé, she was for a time assistant to Valérie Pécresse during her studies.
She stood out in the Assembly in 2017 on budget issues. “She is the real pillar of the majority in Finance. There were no hiccups during the debates and she managed to influence the government on certain points,” judged the socialist Valérie Rabault, former general rapporteur for the Budget. “He is one of the figures of the majority. They are not that many who can argue, respond”abounded at the time Eric Coquerel (LFI). Very quickly, she became number 2 among the majority deputies alongside Gilles Le Gendre. There, his detractors decried his “authoritarianism” or his “corporalism”.
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