The Prime Minister has found her new chief of staff in the person of Jean-Denis Combrexelle, a specialist in the Labor Code, appointed on Monday July 17, according to ministerial sources from AFP. What’s special about this new collaborator? He currently holds the same position with the Minister of Justice, further specifies Agence France-Presse from the same source.
“I announce the arrival of Jean-Denis Combrexelle, who succeeds Aurélien Rousseau as of today”, announced Elisabeth Borne this Monday in a message addressed to his team, according to these sources.
Jean-Denis Combrexelle, 69, replaces Aurélien Rousseau, chief of staff to the Prime Minister for more than a year. The latter should have left office on July 1, and this long-delayed replacement had fueled speculation about a possible government reshuffle affecting even the head of government.
It would not be: “So the Prime Minister remains” in post at Matignon, reacted to AFP a former minister of Emmanuel Macron, after the appointment of Jean-Denis Combrexelle.
This former president of the litigation section of the Council of State (2018-2021), after having chaired its social section (2014-2018), led under right-wing and then left-wing governments the powerful general directorate of labor at the ministry Labor (2001-2014).
A specialist in social issues, he was notably the author of a report submitted in 2015 to the then Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, on labor law and collective bargaining. Since May 2022, he has been chief of staff to the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti.
