Jean Castex on the start
“Very simple, very classic”the resignation letter is ready: the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, is about to leave Matignon, leaving the field open to speculation that a woman would replace him for the June legislative elections.
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“A new era is dawning”commented on Sunday nearby Parisian John Castex. The self-proclaimed “prime minister of stewardship” claimed to leave “without remorse or regret”after twenty months at Matignon.
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Eyes are now turning to the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, who receives the President of the European Council Charles Michel for lunch on Monday. He had assured, a week ago in Berlin, that he already knew the name of his next prime minister, endowed, according to him, with a profile « social », “ecological” et “productive”.
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For the president of the Modem, François Bayrou, an ally of Emmanuel Macron, it takes a person, man or woman, who has “leadership, experience. And you need a fairly great empathy with the President of the Republic ” car “When the President of the Republic hates the Prime Minister, things can only go wrong”he pointed out on Sunday at the Grand Jury RTL-LCI Le Figarociting the case of François Mitterrand and his Prime Minister Michel Rocard (1988-1991).
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After those of Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne and former Health Minister Marisol Touraine, the name that keeps coming up is that of Catherine Vautrin, former Minister of Social Cohesion under Jacques Chirac, who had given her support to Emmanuel Macron before the first round of the presidential election.
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“She has a lot of experience and works thoroughly on her files, she has both moderate and very solid convictions, she loves people and has a deeply humanist background: three character traits that are not so often found in Politics “pleads a local elected official close to the president of the urban community of Grand Reims.
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Problem: this former deputy Les Républicains, who had campaigned against same-sex marriage in 2012 and 2013, bristles on the left.
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