In the aftermath of Emmanuel Macron's intervention, Prime Minister Jean Castex declined on Wednesday, July 15 before the National Assembly, the government's roadmap for the coming months which promise to be particularly complicated against the backdrop of the health and economic crisis .

Mandatory mask in enclosed spaces from August 1, industrial and ecological recovery plan, priority for young people: by returning to the TV interview on July 14, Emmanuel Macron mentioned several measures, but often without going into detail .

Place Jean Castex to clarify the intentions of the executive during his declaration of general policy which starts at 3 p.m. in the National Assembly, followed by a debate for two and a half hours, then a vote.

"It's a meeting with yourself, you have to feel the country, both to be in line with the guidelines of the head of state and then to be aware that you have to do specific and concrete things because "we have 600 days" by the end of the five-year term, he told Le Figaro.

Revealing exercise

The text will be read at the same time by a minister before the Senate. Jean Castex will come himself Thursday at 10 a.m. before the Upper House. Also at the Luxembourg Palace, the declaration, an exercise which traditionally marks the entry into office of a new government, will be followed by a debate, but without vote. The Prime Minister could clarify his announcements concerning the territories, to which he pays great attention.

Deputies and senators impatiently await this exercise which, they hope, will reveal the Prime Minister, from the right, his method with Parliament and his privileged axes. Even on the side of the majority, the deputies ask to be convinced. Many thought for the last two years of the quinquennium a "center-left response" after the departure of Edouard Philippe de Matignon.

In addition, the feverishness has gained the LREM and MoDem ranks, where a few Secretaries of State should be appointed, probably by the end of the week. Within the executive, they "hold them all for the vote of confidence", observes the deputy Matthieu Orphelin, ex- "walker".

With AFP

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