While some criticize him for having gone to vote by plane on Sunday, Prime Minister Jean Castex defended himself on Tuesday on RTL:
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I used the usual rules which apply to the Prime Minister", retorted the head of the government, visibly annoyed by the question.
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🗳️ "I used the usual rules that apply to the Prime Minister", @JeanCASTEX in #RTLMatin.
"It's a time of controversy, isn't it?"
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To go to the polls in the city of which he was mayor from 2008 to 2020, Jean Castex made a round trip by plane, revealed Liberation.
A journey of 800 km estimated at 10,000 euros or the equivalent of 6 months of CO2 emissions for an average citizen.
“I flew out of state.
The Prime Minister, he must be in Paris very quickly if there is the slightest problem, ”he justified.
“It's a time of controversy, isn't it?
“, he also launched, while Emmanuel Macron is campaigning to try to win the second round of the presidential election against Marine Le Pen.
"False controversy"
This is not the first time that Jean Castex has been pinned for his air travel.
Last February Mediapart had depicted its almost systematic use of this means of transport, even for the shortest journeys, for which an alternative by train exists.
On this subject, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on February 9 that it was a “false controversy”, on “a handful of trips”.
“The Prime Minister is fond of one thing, it is trips to the field and meetings with the French, he has shown it since his arrival at Matignon”, he had retorted.
This Tuesday, it was the Prime Minister himself who took charge of responding to the stimulus.
