Government Georges Pompidou (1)

This article introduces to the composition of the Gouvernement of the France under the Prime Minister Georges Pompidou of the April 14th 1962 to the December 7th 1962. It is about the first government of Georges Pompidou.

Initial composition

Prime Minister named on April 14th, 1962
Ministers and named Secretaries of State on April 15th, 1962

Prime Minister, Georges Pompidou
Minister of state, in charge of the cultural Affairs: Andre Malraux
Minister of state, in charge of the Co-operation: Pierre Pflimlin (MRP)
Minister of state, charged with the Departments and overseas territories: Louis Jacquinot
Minister of state, in charge of the Algerian Businesses: Louis Joxe
Minister of state, in charge of the Scientific research, Questions atomic and space: Gaston Palewski

Deputy secretary near the Prime Minister, in charge of the Relations with the Parliament: Roger Dusseaulx (UNR)
Deputy secretary near the Prime Minister, in charge of Town and country planning: Maurice Schumann (MRP)

Minister of Justice, Minister for Justice: Jean Hearth
Foreign Minister: Maurice Broods of Murville
Minister of Interior Department: Roger Frey
Minister for the Armies: Pierre Messmer
Minister for Finance and Economic affairs: Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Minister for State education: Pierre Sudreau
Minister of Industry: Michel Maurice-Bokanowski
public Minister for Labor and Transport: Robert Buron
Minister for Agriculture: Edgard Pisani
Minister for Labor: Paul Bacon
Minister for the Public health and the Population: Joseph Fontanet
Minister for Construction: Jacques Maziol (UNR)
Minister for the War veterans and War victims: Raymond Triboulet
Minister for the Stations and Telecommunications: Jacques Marette (UNR)

Secretary of State near the Prime Minister, in charge of Information: Alain Peyrefitte (UNR)
Secretary of State near the Prime Minister, in charge of the Public office: Jean de Broglie

Secretaries of State mention of a ministerial supervision in the source:

Foreign affairs: Georges Gorse
Repatriated: Robert Boulin
Domestic trade: François Missoffe
Foreign trade: Gilbert Grandval (UDT)
Public works: Pierre Dumas (UNR)

Cabinet reshuffle (May 15th, 1962)

Resignation of five ministers resulting from MRP, following the press conference of the general de Gaulle rejecting “integrated Europe”:

Paul Bacon, Robert Buron, Joseph Fontanet, Pierre Pflimlin and Maurice Schumann.

Nomination of:

Minister for the Public health and the Population: Raymond Marcellin
Minister for Labor: Gilbert Grandval
Minister for the Co-operation: Georges Gorse
public Minister for Labor and Transport: Roger Dusseaulx
Secretary of State near the Prime Minister, in charge of the Relations with the Parliament: Pierre Dumas

Cabinet reshuffle (September 11th, 1962)

Deputy secretary near the Prime Minister, in charge of Information: Christian Fouchet

Delegated minister in charge for the Repatriates: Alain Peyrefitte

Secretary of State to the Budget: Robert Boulin
mention of ministry in charge in the source

Cabinet reshuffle (October 15th, 1962)

Resignation of Pierre Sudreau

Minister for State education by interim: Louis Joxe

The vote of censure of October 5th, 1962

The National Assembly having voted a motion of censure on October 5th, 1962, the Prime Minister, under the terms of article 50 of the Constitution, gave at once the resignation of the government to the president of the Republic. However, this one refused it and chooses to dissolve the National Assembly on October 10th.

Certain constitutionnalists still question themselves to know if, in the absence of being illegal (the Constitution being dumb on this precise point), this refusal to accept the resignation was not sullied with a certain illegitimacy.

Quarrel of experts, since the electorate sliced by electing a new Parliament in conformity with the wishes of the executive power.

It should be noticed that, in the facts, the government behaved, for the election time, like a cabinet dispatching the go concern , as testifies some the temporary addition to the wallet of State education to competences of Louis Joxe.

See too

Historical of the governments of France

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