This Thursday April 15, Jean Castex will make his hundredth trip to France.
One hundred trips in nine months to Matignon.
Frantic pace, but for what result?
Immediate response from those around him: “The government is headed by a mayor.
A mayor has the ability to listen.
He wants to be able to capture information to make the right decisions ”.
Do we have a concrete example of an arbitration triggered following a field trip?
“Yes,” replies one of those accompanying him everywhere.
The rejuvenation of people in intensive care.
It was the doctors in the hospitals he visited who alerted him.
And that is why we have developed our prevention communication aimed at a younger audience ”.
If Jean Castex, who was mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales), travels a lot, it is also because he is convinced that salvation will come through the “territories” (this is his favorite word).
It is even the hallmark of a Prime Minister, in some ways quite original - he seems, for example, quite impervious to criticism.
His contemptors (sometimes even within his government) blame him for a lack of authority, a questionable political sense, an inability to "impress" in the country and with the French.
Jean Castex ignores them.
He appears entirely absorbed by the management of the crisis, on the one hand, and by the political job description set by Emmanuel Macron on July 3, 2020, on the other hand.
Precisely: bring a little complement of empathy and closeness to a macronism sometimes perceived as cold and distant.
It is not certain that traveling through France is enough, but it is the bet of the Prime Minister, who, imperturbable, is already preparing his 101st trip.
