Which team, and when? The new Prime Minister, Jean Castex, intends with Emmanuel Macron to form "as soon as possible" a government to apply a recovery plan in the face of the economic and social crisis, before the presidential election of 2022.
At midday on Saturday, the head of government met with the president at the Elysee Palace of potential members of his future government, according to a government source. It then made its first official release, on the X-FAB France group's semiconductor research and production site, in Essonne.
A team before Monday?
When he arrived, this senior official, hitherto unknown to the general public, who presented himself as "a social Gaullist" and "a man of the territories", said before a few elected officials his wish to "change the opinion which thinks that can only play politics when you are elected national ”.
In the meantime, the former "Monsieur déconfinement", who was deputy secretary general of the Elysée under Nicolas Sarkozy and who has just left the Republicans, intends to do "everything to" form his government before Monday with the head of state. He wants to deliver his policy statement "mid-week next" to Parliament.
It will be without Tubiana
This reshuffle promises to be "large-scale", according to the entourage of Emmanuel Macron, who said that there would be "new talents" and "personalities from different backgrounds". But it will be without Laurence Tubiana, the linchpin of COP21 and the Citizen's Climate Convention, whose name circulated for the Ministry of Ecology. She told AFP that she "did not wish" to enter government.
The choice as Prime Minister of a “techno” profile gives the Head of State a free hand, after three years of cordial agreement with Edouard Philippe, who was gaining increasing weight in government strategy and opinion. And while dissensions appeared, notably for pension reform. "I am not here to seek light, I am here to seek results", assured Jean Castex. While a “very hard” return to the economic and social front is looming, he will be responsible for applying the “new path” wanted by the Head of State, with priority to health policy, at the old age and to a plan for youth, and the resumption of the pension reform.
The Castex method? "Open consultations (...) with the Nation, with the social partners, in the territories, with all stakeholders" and develop a "new social pact". "When we are in crisis, we must continue to support the economy, but we must make wise choices, oriented choices, that is to say choices that allow us to rebuild, to gain economic sovereignty, to have a more economical France from the point of view of respect for the environment, therefore both emergency measures and structural measures: this is the axis of the recovery plan that we are preparing, "he said. Explain.
After the right, the right
After the municipal elections marked by a strong push from the Greens, he said that ecology was "no longer an option". Emmanuel Macron "recruits his colleagues from the old world," tackled Friday evening EELV chief Julien Bayou, excluding any entry of EELV to the government. "We have a man on the right replaced by a man even more to the right," lambasted Olivier Faure (PS) on Saturday.
"At the end of the municipal elections, France is on the right, so the President of the Republic has chosen a right-wing Prime Minister," said Franck Louvrier, former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy. The Republicans, who lose a new defector after Edouard Philippe, Bruno Le Maire or Gérald Darmanin, especially want to see Jean Castex as a “technocratic” choice, according to their leader Christian Jacob. LR vice president Gilles Platret warned of future government recruitment attempts, calling for a "no" vote. The no of "courage to step aside so as not to deny yourself".
Edouard Philippe, who found the town hall of Le Havre on Sunday, agreed to "help the president" to "consolidate the majority", weakened by the loss of the absolute majority in the Assembly, internal disputes and a fiasco in the elections municipal for LREM.
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