France: the Matignon website mistakenly announces the resignation of the Castex government
This Saturday, the Matignon website erroneously posted a page announcing the resignation of the Jean Castex government, information very quickly denied by the Prime Minister's entourage.
AFP - SARAH MEYSSONNIER
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This Saturday, May 14, the Matignon website mistakenly displayed a page announcing the resignation of the Jean Castex government.
His entourage quickly denied the information and Matignon indicated technical problems.
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This error comes as the announcement of the new government is slow in coming and is the subject of all speculation.
Here is what we could read for more than an hour on the Matignon website this Saturday: “
Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the resignation of his government to Emmanuel Macron.
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But none of that happened.
The web page displayed by mistake on government.fr is “
regularly used in the event of a redesign.
It's been prepared for a while now.
It's a ghost page that came up in Google searches.
The government information service has contacted the search engine to rectify
, ”says Matignon to
AFP
.
“
Since the report, the page has been dereferenced and unpublished.
Only press releases are authentic.
There is no reshuffle planned to our knowledge today
, ”concludes the Prime Minister’s entourage.
We will therefore have to wait a little longer to know the name of the future Prime Minister.
A change that should not occur before Monday.
This Sunday, Jean Castex will be traveling to Rome and on the press release, it is clearly stated that he will go there as Prime Minister.
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To read: New government in France: "It's omerta at the castle"
(and with
AFP
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