Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal will finally complete their casting. In July 2020, Jean Castex took twenty days to add secretaries of state to his ministers.

Since February 1, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic has reached the 21st day. “He takes his time, he thinks, he consults, to appoint the right people in the right place. It’s his method,” his entourage learnedly supports, recalling euphemistically that he “has also been a little busy with the farmers’ crisis lately.”