Unknown when he arrived in Matignon, Jean Castex immediately set about making up for his lack of notoriety. His name hits the headlines every day in the summer news. For the past month, he has been ruling at a rapid pace.
It is on all fronts, all areas, all issues. He went from a police station to an apprenticeship training center, from a visit to worried wine growers to a ministerial meeting on the Lebanon crisis. This Tuesday, in Montpellier, he will make his 18th trip outside Paris, to warn the French against the Covid and the heatwave.
His style matches his character. That of a man who claims to have good sense pegged to the body, a taste for proximity, people, terroirs. He was also chosen for that. François Bayrou considers it “refreshing” . Others claim it is just communication. They are all right. The mayor of Pau because Jean Castex is, after all, atypical in this function. The second because he will not have
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