"Go on then!" urged Valérie Pécresse, a former budget minister.
"These figures are indecent," said France's budget minister Jerôme Cahuzac in an interview with Europe1 Radio.
Cristóbal Montoro, the budget minister, had recently estimated that Spain had 5.4 million unemployed.
Jérôme Cahuzac, 59 and the head of Parliament's budget committee, became budget minister.
François Baroin, another Chirac protégé, keeps his job as budget minister.
"This system works quite well," claims Dimitris Mardas, the budget minister.
Jérôme Cahuzac, the budget minister, derided Mr. Depardieu's departure as a "big win for Belgian cinema".
The following month Budget Minister Adolphe Muzito was appointed in his place.
The Budget Minister, Alberto Romulo, is a legal expert who sought impeachment proceedings against Mr. Marcos.
His career flourished in postwar France and he rose to become budget minister.
The former budget minister, Alain Lambert, said the photo was an "example of disastrous political communication".
