On Twitch, Prime Minister Jean Castex does not split the armor but hammers his message
An unprecedented exercise for a French Prime Minister: Jean Castex answered questions from journalist Samuel Etienne and Internet users of the Twitch social network on Sunday evening (illustrative image).
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An unprecedented exercise for a French Prime Minister: Jean Castex answered Sunday evening to questions from journalist Samuel Étienne and Internet users of the social network Twitch, popular with young people.
Health crisis, vaccination but also institutional reforms or legalization of cannabis, Jean Castex bowed to the exercise for an hour and a half, without varying from his usual speech and tone.
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The media is different, Jean Castex remains the same.
He does not have a tie but speaks as he is used to speaking, which one Internet user reproaches him with: “
Is it possible for you this evening to use simpler, more direct formulations?
""
I cannot say everything in one word or one formula,
replies the Prime Minister.
Things are a little more complicated.
I try to do it with my words, and I mostly try to say it as it is
.
"
Not very comfortable on personal questions, except that on rugby, the Prime Minister did not come to split the armor.
“
I'm not trying to please,
” he admits.
He came to justify his decisions: no reconfinement of Ile-de-France until everything has been done to avoid it, no reason to suspend the Astra Zeneca vaccine, no soon reopening of bars, restaurants or places of culture.
Summer will not be a normal summer, the creation of a vaccination passport is well under consideration.
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I am for it, as long as it is effective.
We must not discriminate on the basis of a vaccination passport or not, but it is a work that is being studied, I confirm it.
"
Jean Castex gives his opinion on the legalization of recreational cannabis: it's no.
Against institutional reform.
"
They work rather well,
" said the Prime Minister to young Internet users who are however skeptical.
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