This article is about the collective executive of France. For the entire governing system of France, see Politics of France. For the current government of France, see Attal government.
Government of the French Republic
Gouvernement de la République française
Central government
Overview
Established
4 October 1958 (Fifth Republic)
State
French Republic
Leader
Prime Minister of France
Appointed by
President of France
Main organ
Council of Ministers
Responsible to
National Assembly
Annual budget
€299.7 billion[1]
Headquarters
Hôtel Matignon, Paris
Website
gouvernement.fr(in French)
Politics of France
Constitutions
Fifth Republic
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Executive
President (list)
Emmanuel Macron (LREM)
Prime Minister (list)
Gabriel Attal (LREM)
Government
Attal
Legislature
National Assembly: Membership
President: Yaël Braun-Pivet
Senate
President: Gérard Larcher
Congress of the French Parliament
Judiciary
Constitutional Council
Council of State
Court of Cassation
Court of Audit
Cour de Justice de la République
Administrative divisions
Regions
Metropolitan regions
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Brittany
Centre-Val de Loire
Corsica
Grand Est
Hauts-de-France
Île-de-France
Normandy
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitania
Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Overseas regions
French Guiana
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Mayotte
Réunion
Overseas country
French Polynesia
Departments
Elections
Referendums
Presidential
Legislative
Senate
Municipal
Political parties
Foreign relations
Africa
Americas
Asia
France and the United Nations
Foreign alliances
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
Politics of the European Union
Related topics
Centirism
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Political scandals
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The Government of France (French: gouvernement français), officially the Government of the French Republic (Gouvernement de la République française[ɡuvɛʁnəmɑ̃dəlaʁepyblikfʁɑ̃sɛːz]), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the prime minister, who is the head of government, as well as both senior and junior ministers.
The Council of Ministers, the main executive organ of the government, was established in the Constitution in 1958. Its members meet weekly at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The meetings are presided over by the president of France, the head of state, although the officeholder is not a member of the government.
The government's most senior ministers are titled as ministers of state (ministres d'État), followed in protocol order by ministers (ministres), ministers delegate (ministres délégués), whereas junior ministers are titled as secretaries of state (secrétaires d'État). All members of the government, who are appointed by the president following the recommendation of the prime minister, are responsible to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament. Cases of ministerial misconduct are tried before the Cour de Justice de la République.
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