The fourteen hours of flight at the same time not twenty-four hours, for its express return trip to Guyana on Sunday, like the five hours time difference between Paris and Cayenne, will they weigh this Monday morning on the eyelids of Jean Castex, at the moment to receive associations of local elected officials in Matignon? Nine days after taking office, the successor of Edouard Philippe continues his entry into the field at a hellish pace.
Composition of the new government, first Council of Ministers, baptism of fire in the National Assembly, trip to Bobigny, interview with Jean-Jacques Bourdin on RMC, trip to Dijon, government seminar ... Last week saw the Prime Minister on all fronts to impose his style and priorities. “He has a good physique, he is a rugby player. It's normal for him to enter the fray right away, ”says Jean-Michel Blanquer in private.
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And the coming week will be in keeping. This Monday afternoon, after a lunch quickly swallowed, Castex will continue with the signature of the much awaited Ségur de la santé, before several working meetings at the end of the day, where it will notably be a question of preparing the general policy speech he will pronounce Wednesday in the National Assembly - the day after the televised interview with Emmanuel Macron -, before a passage before the Senate on Thursday, then a new trip this weekend. Do not throw any more! To the point that the new tenant of Matignon has not yet had the time to personalize his office. If not, all the same, this poster size photograph of his town of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) seen from the sky, which he received as a gift on Thursday.
Ground, still ground, still ground
"He wants to make himself known, assert himself and show that he has a 360-degree vision of the subjects", translates a ministerial adviser. "He moves a lot, he will move a lot. It is his temperament and his political objective ”, summarizes his entourage. Saturday morning, in the middle of a government seminar, the main party did not say less, enjoining all of its ministers to multiply on the ground. To the point of splitting a tweet at the exit ... in case some people may have misunderstood the message: "I reminded you: I want the ministers to go on the ground to hear the requests of the French, businesses and local elected officials. "
“Jean Castex does nothing more or less what he has learned from his mentors, Xavier Bertrand and Nicolas Sarkozy. Active hyper, who move all the time. We can say that he was at a good school, "decrypts a visitor to the Palace.
Behind the scenes, the Castex style clashes as much as it asks questions. “It goes to 100 an hour. His arrival is still delivering a big boost to the majority, and there was a need, recognizes a high ranking LREM. But the pressure is going to be huge for everyone. It's going to be the race for the media, to the small sentence to make yourself seen from the Elysée Palace. The risk is going off the road. And there, watch out for the backlash. Especially since if the results do not come, the French will quickly say that we are only doing com. "
Eclipse Philippe
In the entourage of Emmanuel Macron, however, we assume this strategy. “No one knew Jean Castex at the time of his appointment. Who does not know him today? We no longer think of Edouard Philippe! "Is racing a close friend of the Head of State. "It was the primary goal: to occupy the field to prove that it was the right choice and to forget a Prime Minister who was very popular, decrypts the communicator Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet. For the moment, it's not working too badly. But the danger too, being everywhere and all the time, is to grill very quickly instead of establishing a long-term relationship. "
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This relationship, the new Prime Minister will surely have the opportunity to weave it Wednesday afternoon in the hemicycle, on the occasion of his general policy speech on which he has been working for a few days. "It is a very personal exercise, especially since before being appointed Prime Minister, he always wrote all his speeches himself," says his entourage. Will it do the same again this time? “Inevitably, he will feed on notes provided by his advisers. But he will put his paw, that's for sure. "
