Special envoy to Halluin (North)
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Presidential 2022: where are Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the polls?
A bourle in hand, Jean Castex leaves the circle of Saint-Joseph to applause.
In Halluin (North), the Prime Minister was not asked to try this traditional game of Flanders.
Too bad if the man from the South is more comfortable playing petanque, as he points out himself.
The challenge, in this town which placed Marine Le Pen in the lead in the first round of the presidential election, is above all to mend the link with a popular electorate which is struggling to recognize itself through Emmanuel Macron.
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Cantor of the territories, Jean Castex does not meet the same distrust when he wanders in the streets which adjoin the Belgian border.
“You have to be humble and your servant has always been,”
he slips.
“There is room for progress, for improvement.
We can always improve, we always have to improve.
There are only those who never do the dishes who do not break plates”
, continues the head of government between two discussions…
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