The most visible and sensitive part of his mission ends. Installed with ten employees on the sixth floor of a dependency of Matignon, located avenue de Ségur in Paris, Jean Castex was the patient coordinator of the deconfinement plan. " A huge job ," blows a secretary of state. The departmental plans had to be coherent, because each minister has his priorities. And we had to go into details, because each ministerial plan was itself broken down into sub-plans prepared by the major administrative directorates or sub-directorates . ” A Benedictine work that will remain in the shadows, since it is the Prime Minister himself who will unveil, Tuesday, the result of this work and not Jean Castex.
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That turns out well. Former Deputy Secretary General at the Elysée Palace, under Nicolas Sarkozy, the mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) hardly looks for the spotlight. He is a regular at backstage, interdepartmental gymnastics and administrative cogs.
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