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00:00At just 33 Antoine Armand hadn't yet made his name in national politics, but that's changed now
00:07He's taking on a huge ministerial portfolio
00:10economy and finance
00:11He's joined by Marc Ferrati as industry minister and Laurent Saint-Martin as budget minister
00:18All little known till now but all close to President Emmanuel Macron
00:22The left-wing frustrated at being shut out of the cabinet say new faces
00:27Don't mean a thing if the policies stay the same
00:32They tell us that there's a deficit but that doesn't happen by itself
00:35It's linked to the fact that for the last seven years the wealthiest have been getting more and more tax giveaways
00:40So this is money that's not going into the national coffers and that's creating debt
00:46Another member of Macron's renaissance party and Janet a takes charge at the education ministry
00:52But her background is in defense for some teachers unions
00:56She'll have a lot to learn at a time when schools are dealing with severe understaffing
01:01There's a lot of anger because we have a new minister who knows nothing about education
01:05who's never been interested in it and who now has been nominated to run this important ministry at a time when schools are going through
01:12an unprecedented crisis
01:16Some of the other lesser-known ministers are not MPs
01:19But are local representatives like the new sports minister Gilles Averroes the mayor of a small city
01:24Now moving to Paris to take up his role in national government

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