The following steps are known. After the appointment and then the installation of Jean Castex in Matignon, the President of the Republic will exchange all weekend with his new Prime Minister. Objective: compose a new government team, that supposed to lead the head of state until the presidential campaign of 2022 and "breathe new life", according to a minister. The cast should be known at the start of the week, before the cabinet meeting traditionally scheduled for Wednesday. But Emmanuel Macron wishes to keep all the room for maneuver and therefore not engrave anything in stone, until everything is decided.
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"The president often gets comfortable with the calendar," smiles one of his friends, who recalls that the replacement of Gérard Collomb by Christophe Castaner in Beauvau, in the fall of 2018, had taken more than two weeks. "I understand that we are targeting Monday. So, with the delay in force, surely Tuesday, " predicts a member of the government,
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