Did Jean Castex want to spoil a few points from the program of the almost presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron?

Saturday during a visit to the Nexter armament group, in Roanne in the Loire, the Prime Minister considered that "the essential" reindustrialization of France is a "still long way" but "a clear course".

“Between 1980 and the end of the 2010s, France lost an average of 50,000 industrial jobs per year.

Over the past three years, we have recreated 30,000.

The road is still long but the course is clear.

The course is essential, ”said the Prime Minister in a speech delivered at the Nexter factory.

Reindustrializing the country is “a question of economic competitiveness, of employment, which allows unemployment to fall in an extremely spectacular way”, he also underlined.

More than a billion euros in contracts

The head of government, accompanied by the Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly, has also signed a 600 million euro contract with the manufacturer to develop the "Caesar NG" artillery system, for new generation, and acquire 33 of them. copies.

These 155 mm truck-mounted guns, available from 2026, are part of the Scorpion Army modernization program.

Jean Castex also formalized an order for 1.257 billion euros for 302 Griffon heavy multirole armored vehicles, 88 Jaguar reconnaissance armored vehicles and 54 Mepac, a version of the Griffon on which a 120 mm mortar is mounted.

This order is also part of the Scorpion mega program, with a total cost of 11 billion euros.

It is a “complete renewal of the equipment of the Army without precedent” in order to “repair our operational capital”, estimated Jean Castex.

In the footsteps of Macron and his “France 2030” plan

In this context, the Prime Minister insisted on "reindustrialization in the defense sector as in other sectors", which has "become a categorical imperative again".

“To this grand design, the military programming law and investments in the defense industry make a decisive contribution”.

President Emmanuel Macron had also announced last October an investment plan of 30 billion euros over five years as part of a "France 2030" plan aimed at developing industrial competitiveness and future technologies and “rebuilding the terms of a productive French and European independence”.

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