His place has changed. Literally as well as figuratively. During the Council of Ministers, Edouard Philippe is now seated to the right of the Head of State, and no longer across the street. It is a matter of appearing at the center of the videoconference, of making oneself heard by ministers connected from the outside. The Prime Minister was twice that of Emmanuel Macron. There he is, thanks to the crisis, become his real right arm. During internal information points for ministers, he chairs the meeting from the basement of the inter-ministerial crisis cell, Place Beauvau.
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Monday evening, Edouard Philippe took advantage of this meeting to urge his troops to be modest. " We are in a moment when you have to be humble ," he says. There is no shame in saying that one does not know when one does not know. The Prime Minister wants to instill less padlocked communication in his certainties and instill his trademark: a mixture of restraint, refusal of emphasis and distance.
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