“It is a new era which opens”, commented Sunday with the Parisian Jean Castex.

The self-proclaimed "Prime Minister of Stewardship" said he was leaving "without remorse or regret", after twenty months at Matignon.

Eyes are now turning to the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, who received for lunch, Monday, May 16, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.

He had assured, a week ago in Berlin, that he already knew the name of his next Prime Minister, who, according to him, should have a "social", "ecological" and "productive" profile.

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