Jean Castex and Christophe Castaner share the same objective.
Close ranks within a group The Republic on the march plagued by divisions, consolidate the fragile foundations of the majority to build the device of Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election of 2022. An alliance of circumstances both this pair and the first Minister and the president of the largest majority group in the Assembly seems, by their respective and common history, improbable.
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One comes from the right, a man in the shadows, deputy secretary general of the Elysee under Nicolas Sarkozy, the other comes from the left and has established himself as one of the most identified personalities in power.
One is elected from the South-West, the other from the South-East.
The magic of the "at the same time" macronist brought them together.
For the moment, the two men know each other little.
In October 2018, the episode of the succession of Gérard Collomb Place Beauvau opposed them indirectly.
At the time, Christophe Castaner, this loyal
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