Wednesday afternoon, the day after Emmanuel Macron's speech on the occasion of the July 14 festivities, Jean Castex will face the deputies for his general policy speech. A must for the Prime Minister, who must allow him to impose his style.
Jean Castex is due to give his big oral to the deputies this Wednesday with his general policy speech. It will be the moment to detail the measures of the recovery plan outlined on Tuesday by the President of the Republic. But also to set his style and send a message: there is a boss at Matignon.
With Jean Castex, it is I execute because I have decided. Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron painted a portrait of his new Prime Minister, chosen to open a new political page. A man who has the culture of a local elected official and more attentive to the terms of the President of the Republic. Translate more attentively than Edouard Philippe was. And this is why Emmanuel Macron, a pure product of the globalized village, chose the mayor of a small town of 6,000 inhabitants which smells good of this France of the middle classes who often feel forgotten or sacrificed.
The Prime Minister's mission is not only to implement the measures of the recovery plan. He must reconnect the political threads with the ground and the pact of confidence between the French and the president. In fact, Jean Castex revives the function of Prime Minister. He intends to be the leader of the majority, which Edouard Philippe refused to do. The task will be arduous, time is running out. But his strengths, apart from a very fine knowledge of the state apparatus, are not limited to his singing accent.
No, Jean Castex's fatal weapon is his tie with discreet color patterns, a fatherly trend. She immediately sets him apart from the business lawyer look in a dark outfit, the waisted uniform of politicians. Jean Castex recalls this basic principle of dressmakers: behind each costume, there is a pattern.