Jean Castex hard at work to form a new government

Jean Castex says he measures the immensity of the task ahead. Appointed Friday to succeed Edouard Philippe, the new Prime Minister said Friday, July 3, wanting to "go quickly to appoint the government as soon as possible". Asked about TF1 to find out if the announcement could come before Monday, he replied: "We will do everything for it."

"We are already working on it, I would like to deliver my general policy speech in the middle of next week." The first project of this 55-year-old enarch, a graduate in public law, will be "the country's recovery plan, reconstruction by investing in sectors of the future", notably evoking ecology.

"Ecology, he insisted, is not an option, it has entered everyone's mind, it transcends the political class." "Now, how can we amplify? It is at the heart of the priorities that the President of the Republic asked me to implement."

Regarding the economic recovery plan, it "is being prepared" and will be "presented very quickly". It will be based on "oriented choices that allow reconstruction, to gain economic sovereignty, to have a more economical France from the point of view of respect for the environment," said Jean Castex.

"I'm here to look for results"

In a press release published by the municipality of Prades, a small town in the Pyrénées-Orientales of which he has been mayor since 2008, Jean Castex said that he measured "the immensity of the task that awaits him".

On Twitter, the new tenant of Matignon clarified his method: "Before giving the solutions, I would like us to discuss it with the Nation, with the social partners, in the territories. We will involve them as much as possible in research solutions for a new social pact. "

Before giving the solutions, I would like us to discuss it with the Nation, with the social partners, in the territories. We will involve them as much as possible in the search for solutions for a new social pact. pic.twitter.com/x86rLaME0B

As for his style of governance, the successor of Edouard Philippe, who presents himself as a "social Gaullist" and as a "local politician rooted in (his) territory", indicated that he was not here "for seek the light ". "I'm here to look for results."

With AFP and Reuters

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