He wears the mask, but we can see it in his eyes: he is not smiling.
Jean Castex did not appreciate Xavier Bertrand's latest attack against Emmanuel Macron.
The candidate declared at the same time to the regional ones in the Hauts de France and to the presidential one described, in the columns of Figaro, Emmanuel Macron like "a cold calculator and a destroyer".
We really wanted to know what the Prime Minister thought of it since, let us remember, former close to Bertrand, he was his chief of staff between 2006 and 2008 in the ministries of Health and then of Labor.
"These are caricatures, remarks of circumstance and candidate, he curls to us. Some people believe that anything goes in the countryside, it is not my conception of politics. For my part, I can tell you that these words are the opposite of the man with whom I have been working for ten months now and serving alongside him as Prime Minister reinforces me every day in this assessment. "His old closeness with Xavier Bertrand" will be precious to us next year ", smiles a close friend of Macron.
The president's strategists do not take Bertrand's candidacy lightly, far from it (this is also why they send Eric Dupond-Moretti to the Hauts de France, it has not escaped the notice of anyone.) In the perspective of the presidential election, they are also counting on Castex, a formidable anti-Bertrand weapon… “Know your enemy and know yourself,” wrote Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”. Were you a hundred wars to fight, a hundred times you will be victorious. The advantage with Castex is that Xavier Bertrand… well, he knows him by heart.
