Overview
- The Council of Ministers is expected to confirm the appointment on Wednesday, according to TF1-LCI and other outlets.
- Faure, 58, is currently Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff and is described as a close ally of the president.
- His résumé includes service in the military and DGSE, prefect posts in Guyane and Morbihan, and the role of high commissioner in New Caledonia until February 2023.
- He previously worked at the Paris Prefecture of Police as director of the police générale in 2016–2017.
- Baptiste Rolland is reported to become Faure’s chief of staff as the prefecture oversees more than 43,000 personnel in Paris and the inner suburbs.